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**﻿That Was Then, This Is Now By: S.E Hinton**  **Summer Reading Project** **5. In his private conversations with Mark, Bryon realizes that he is growing up and changing, but Mark is not. ** **6. Two Texans got mad after Bryon and Mark hustled them for money so they tried to shoot them. After the Texans ran away Bryon and Mark realized that Charlie was shot in the head and killed. After the incident, Bryon felt numb and only wanted to talk about it with Mark and Cathy, but Mark was trying to stay stronger and he told the police what had happened. ** **7. Mark and Cathy are not fond of each other and they have many disagreements. Cathy realized that they were both fighting over Bryon. ** **8. Mark cut off Angel's hair to get back at her for telling the kid to beat up Curtis. ** **9. In chapter seven, Bryon begins to realize that he is growing up but Mark isn't. For example Mark thinks that they are still kids but Bryon is growing up and changing. ** **10. When Bryon went to Terry Jones's house to pick up Mark, he got beat up by two kids for something Mark did to Angel. After that, Bryon doesn't want to fight anyone because he realizes that getting even isn't right. ** **11. In chapter nine, Bryon and Cathy were looking for M&M. They found him in a Hippie house and took him to a hospital because he had taken drugs. This moved Bryon because he thought that M&M would never do anything like that to himself and because he felt sorry for M&M and Cathy's family. ** **12. After Bryon got home from the hospital, he found pills under Mark's bed. He soon realized that Mark was selling them so he could get money for his family. Bryon got very mad so he called the cops on Mark and testified against him. ** **13. Bryon's relationship with his friends wasn't very good because Mark had been sent to jail and he stopped talking to Cathy. His attitude towards life was negative because he didn't have his best friend anymore and he didn't like the way his future turned out. ** **14. At the end of the book Bryon feels depressed because he didn't like the way his life turned out. ** **15. I loved this book! I thought it was a very good story about friendship and trust. I think the message in this story is that you should always try to do the right thing and not to live in the past. **
 * 1. Bryon and Mark are the main characters in, "That Was Then, This is Now." They are best friends and they treat each other like brothers. **
 * 2. When Bryon and Mark went to the hospital to visit Bryon's mom, he met Cathy, M&M's sister, who worked at the hospital's cafeteria, and Mike, a kid who was badly beaten when he was trying to drive a scared girl home. **
 * 3. Bryon and Charlie have a trustworthy relationship. Charlie lets Bryon into the bar even though he is underage. **
 * <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 190%;">4. When Bryon and Mark are at the dance, Mark gets caught in the middle of a fight and has to be brought to the hospital. He is also given ten stitches in his head. **