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//**That Was Then, This is Now by: S.E Hinton**// //**Patrick Ferraiolo**//

Bryon and Mark are two sixteen year old kids who live together and are as close as brothers. Mark is rather small but compact with golden eyes and hair that can match a friendly lion. He is tough and appears to live for the thrill of the moment. Bryon is a big guy with dark hair and eyes and is seriously thinking about what he wants to do with the rest of his life. After Marks parents got killed he went to live with Bryon and his mom.
 * 1. Who are Bryon and Mark?**

Bryon meets a bot about their age named Mike who was beat up badly in a fight and he meets Cathy at the snack bar. She is the brother of a kid Mark and Bryon talk to sometimes.
 * 2. Who are the two people Bryon meets at the hospital?**

Bryon used to date Charlies sister but when they split up he remained close friends with him. Charlie owns a bar and allows Mark and Bryon to come in and hang around the bar and hustle people at pool.
 * 3. What is the relationship Bryon has with Charlie?**

Bryon takes Cathy to a dance and runs into his ex-girlfriend, Angela. Later Marks shows up with some of his friends including Ponyboy Curtis, a boy Angela went for but didnt get. To get even with Ponyboy, she gets a person to fight him, but Mark intervenes and gets hit with a broken beer bottle and has to be taken to the hospital.
 * 4 What happened at the dance?**

Bryon begins to discover that they are growing apart from each other. Bryon thinks that when he looks at Mark he sees someone you couldn't reach in a pit, like the car has widened as big as the Gulf of Mexico. Also he believes that Mark can get away with everything.
 * 5.What does Bryon begin to discover with his private conversations with Mark?**

Charlie gets shot while rescuing Mark and Bryon from two hard nosed Texans who they just hustled at pool. Bryon feels like it was his fault because Charlie warned him about the dangers of hustling people and id having a hard time coming to grips that Charlie is actually gone. On the other hand, Mark feels that Charlie knew he was taking a chance rescuing them and caught a bad break trying to do a nice thing.
 * 6. What happened to Charlie? How do Mark and Bryon feel about it?**

Cathy doesn't like Mark and doesn't know what to make of Mark with his quick actions and his explanations and Mark does not like Cathy.
 * 7. What do Mark and Cathy think of each other?**

While Mark and Bryon were driving up and down the Ribben they find Angela, Bryon's ex- girl friend and almost got Mark killed in a fight at the dance. She is very drunk and when she passes out in their car Mark decides to cut her off to get even with what she did to him.
 * 8. What does Mark do to Angela? Why?**

Bryon discovers that they are growing apart from each other and that Mark has been bringing in a lot of money, but Bryon does not know where it is coming from.
 * 9. In chapter seven, what does Bryon begin to discover about his good friend Mark?**

While waiting for Mark at Terry Jones' house, Bryon gets beat up by Tim and Curly Sheppard, brothers of Angela. They beat him up because they suspect that he cut Angela's hair off. Bryon's attitude changes from liking to beat people up and getting even with people to hating the fact of that.
 * 10. What happens to Bryon at Terry Jones' house? How does his attitude change?**

M&M had a bad acid trip at a free love place and when Bryon and Cathy find him, his head is all messed up. He is put in the hospital but the doctor says that his brain may not be the same. This moves Bryon because he thought that M&M was a sweet kid and was upset that he might not be the same M&M he has known all of his life. Also, he is upset because Cathy is upset.
 * 11. In chapter nine, what happens to M&M? Why does this move Bryon?**

Bryon discovers that Mark has been selling drugs to people for money. Bryon then calls the police on Mark and he is sent to jail.
 * 12. What shocking discovery does Bryon make in marks bedroom? What does he do?**

Bryon's changes his relationship with his friends by being nicer to everybody and not getting even with everybody. He changes his attitude toward life by finding a job, not mouthing off to people.
 * 13. How does Bryon's relationship with his friends and his attitude toward life completely change?**

Bryon is sad that he sent Mark to jail and that he is no longer friends with him. He is also confused with his life and wishes he was a kid again, when he had all of the answers.
 * 14. how does Bryon feel by the end of the book?**

I think that this book is well written and a good book overall. The life messages in this book is that sometimes younger kids get away with things that adults don't really do. Also, another message is that sometimes friends grow apart from each other. The last message is that in life you need to make big decisions that will affect your future.
 * 15. What do you think about this book and what life message does it teach?**