Katie+F

That Was Then, This Is Now
Summer Reading 2011 Katie Farrell

1.) Who are Bryon and Mark?

 * ====Bryon and Mark are two best friends living in the city trying to make their way through without getting into any trouble. ====
 * ====Bryon has dark eyes and dark hair, and is very tall. ====
 * ====Mark is small with golden eyes and hair. ====
 * ====They are best friends. ====

2.) Who are the two young people Byron meets at the hospital?

 * ====First, Bryon meets Cathy Carlson, M&M's sister, working in the restaurant downstairs. ====
 * ====Next, Bryon meets Mike Chambers, a kid around his age, who tells him his story of how he got into the hospital. ====

3.) What kind of relationship does Bryon have with Charlie?

 * ====Byron, I think, thinks of Charlie as someone like an older brother. Even though Charlie and Bryon disagree alot, they still are great friends. ====

4.) What happens at the dance?

 * ====Angela, Bryon's ex-girlfriend, hired someone to beat Curtis up because he was not paying any attention to him when she was flirting with him. When Mark went outside he saw they were fighting and tried to stop it, because of him trying to help, he got hit in the head with a beer bottle leaving him taken away in an ambulance to the hospital for 10 stitched to be put in his head. ====

5.) What does Bryon begin to discover in his private conversations with Mark?

 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Byron starts to discover that he is starting to grow up and become more mature, when Mark still likes to act as a child, such as high jacking cars. ====

<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">6.) What happened to Charlie? How do Bryon and Mark feel about it?

 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">One night Bryon and mark stopped by Charlie's bar to hustle some Texans for some money. Once they had 25.50 they decided to leave and the texans decided they wanted to beat them up for hustling them. Charlie was protecting the kids and was killed to going in between fire. Mark and Byron both have mixed emotions of this unfortunate event. Even thought it left a huge impact on Bryons life, it didnt leave a big one in Mark's life. One thing they did get out of this was to be careful who your dealing with while hustling. ====

<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">7.) What do Mark and Cathy think of eachother?

 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">Mark and Cathy are not very fond of each other. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">Like Cathy said, it is kind of like they are competing over Bryon ====

<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">8.) What does Mark do to Angel? Why?

 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">One night when Mark and Bryon were wondering around the streets, they found Angel and a bunch of her friends drunk. They picked up Angel and brought her for a car ride. When Angel was done complaining and crying about her life Mark cut off her hair, a couple feet of it. He said it was revenge for what happened the night of the big dance. ====

<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">9.) In chapter 7, what does Bryon begin to discover in his good friend Mark?

 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">Bryon begins to discover that Mark still acts like a young kid and 'free from worry'. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">When Bryon is really starting to settle in and thinking of what he wants to do with his life. ====

<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">10.) What happened to Bryon at Terry Jones's house? How does his attitude change?
<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 29px;">When Mark says that they will get even, Bryon decides that he doesnt want to keep fighting, he wants to stop fighting for good.
 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">When Bryon was waiting for Mark the Shepards came and beat him up for cutting Angel's hair. ====

<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">11.) In chapter 9 what happens to M&M? Why does this move Bryon?

 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">In chapter 9, M&M decides to smoke acid like the rest of the kids in the house he is at. He has visions of being sucked into his stomach and spiders holding him down so he cannot get back up. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">This moved Bryon because of how hurt mentally and physically from doing drugs. This also went to show Bryon how much he cared about M&M, as if they were brothers. ====

<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 29px;">12.) What shocking discovery does Bryon make in Mark's bedroom? What does he do?
<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 13.) How does Bryon's relationship with his friends and his attitude towards life completely change? <span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">14.) How does Bryon feel at the end of the book? <span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">15.) What did you think about this book and what life lesson does it teach?
 * ====<span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> In Mark's bedroom one night Bryon finds drugs in the spot where Mark normally would keep spare cigarettes. After Bryon confronts Mark about it and hears his half of the story Bryon watches his best friend being taken away with the police. ====
 * <span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The way he changes is he learns different things from Cathy, M&M, Mark, Angel, Shepard's, Blonde Girl, and his mom. They all teach him different things in life.
 * <span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">At the end of the book he feels like a different person, like he doesn't care about anything. He lost the two people he cared about most in the middle of the book and he feels alone. Although his attitude is changing in a good way, he still wishes he was a kid, worry free.
 * <span style="color: #00a7ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I loved this book. Bryon is thinking of what ifs and regrets of Mark and Cathy. It taught the life lesson that one day everything might be gone and you need to learn to live with no regrets or what ifs.