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**By S.E. Hinton **
====1. Byron and Mark are the main characters of the book That Was Then, This is Now. Both of the boys are sixteen years old. Some people often mistaken Byron and Mark for brothers because Mark has lived with Byron ever since his parents died. ==== ====2. The two young people that Byron meets at the hospital is Mike Chambers who was beaten up badly for something he did not do and Cathy who is M&M's sister. ==== ====3. The relationship of Byron and Charlie would be considered as friends. Byron used to go out with Charlies younger sister but when they broke up Byron and Charlie remained pretty good friends. ==== ====4. Byron brings Cathy to the dance. However Angela, Byron's ex-girlfriend, hires a guy to beat up Curtis, one of Mark's friends. Mark tries to break up the fight, but he was hurt pretty badly and had to be brought to the hospital. ==== ====5. In Byron's private conversations with Mark he begins to realize that he is growing into and adult and more mature but on the other hand Mark is not. He also feels tht they are not as close of friends like they used to be. ==== ====6. Charlie was shot and killed by two Texan men that Byron and Mark hustled. Byron and Mark feel really guilty because if they had not hustled the two men at Charlie's bar Charlie never would have been killed. However Byron feels a little more guilty about the whole thing because Charlie had told him to be careful when hustling people. ==== ====7. Mark and Cathy are not very fond of eachother because Cathy does not like Mark's attitude towards her and Mark is kind of jealous that Cathy is spending all of this time with Byron. Although they both love and appreciate Byron. ==== ====8. Mark cuts of Angela's hair one night when she is talking about her life and how depressed she is. He does this as revenge from the dance when she hired someone to beat up Curtis which sent Mark to the hospital to get stitches. ==== ====9. In chapter 7 Byron realizes that Mark doesnt want to grow up and wants to remain and act like a child, but Byron knows that its time to grow up and has been. Both of them are growing apart from eachother. ==== ====10. When Byron goes to Terry Jones's house he gets beat up by the Shepards for something that Mark did. His attitude changes after the fight because he decides that he does not want to be violent and that he does not want to get revenge on the Shpeards. ==== ====11. In chapter nine Byron discovers M&M in a hippie house. M&M was very confused and messed up from taking drugs and had to go to the hospital. Byron then feels bad for M&M and is more sensitive towards him and his family. ==== ====12. In Mark's bedroom Byron discover drugs underneath his bed. He then calls the cops on Mark and Mark is arrested. ==== ====13. Byron is not close with his friends anymore and regrets calling the cops on Mark. He is also dwelling on the past and cannot stay in the present and look forward to the future. ==== ====<span style="background-color: #ff00c3; color: #00f6ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">14. At the end od the book Byron does not care about anything anymore and he wishes he were a kid again when things were more simpe and not as difficult. ==== ====<span style="background-color: #ff00c3; color: #00f6ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">15. I thought the book was very well and inspirational. The life lesson that it taught me was to stay in present and not dwell in the past, always keep your friends and your family close to you, and to cherish and be grateful for what you have because it could be gone in an instant. ====