Brenna+S.

= //"that was then, this is// //now"// by S.E﻿. Hinton  Young Adult Fiction﻿  =
 * 1) = Bryon and Mark are best friends that are very close and practically brothers. Since his parents died shooting each other, Mark lives with Bryon. Mark is a loyal friend, will protect his friends, but has a reputation with the police. Bryon is a smart sixteen-year-old, who is good at playing pool, but has a smart mouth. =
 * 2) = The two young people Bryon meets at the hospital are Cathy and Mike. Mike was in the hospital for being beat up and Cathy had a job at the hospital's cafeteria. =
 * 3) = Bryon's relationship with Charlie is a simple one. Charlie owns a bar and they know each other because Bryon used to go out with Charlie's sister. Bryon and Charlie's sister later broke up, but Charlie and Bryon stayed friends. Bryon and Mark hangout at Charlie's bar when they need money. =
 * 4) = At the dance, Mark, Curtis, and some other guys were drinking outside while Angelina, Bryon's old girlfriend, got a random kid to try to fight Curtis. Mark stepped in to stop the fight, but the kid swung a glass bottle at Mark's head. Mark got really hurt and had to go to the hospital for stitches. Since Bryon rode to the hospital without Cathy, Curtis dropped her off at her house. =
 * 5) = During Bryon and Mark's private conversations, Bryon begins to realize that they were growing apart from each other. He feels like they are looking at each other from a far distance, because they are seeing things from a different perspective. =
 * 6) = After Mark and Bryon had left Charlie's bar, they were about to be beat up badly when Charlie stepped in. The guys started shooting and Charlie got hit trying to save Bryon and Mark. Afterwards, Bryon was still shocked from Charlie's death was living in slow motion from everyone else. Unlike Bryon, Mark was sad like everyone else but had moved on from Charlie's death. =
 * 7) = Mark and Cathy do not like each other and they are basically fighting over Bryon. Mark is jealous of Cathy because Bryon is spending more time with her then with Mark. Cathy thinks of Mark as an arrogant jerk and doesn't think very highly of him. =
 * 8) = When Mark and Bryon are driving around they find Angel, who is drunk, and take her driving. While in the car, Angel falls asleep and Mark cuts off her long black hair near her head. He does this for having the kid almost kill him with a glass bottle. =
 * 9) = Bryon begins to discover about Mark is that he is bringing in money dis-honestly. He also discovers that Mark knew where M&M where hiding and didn't tell Bryon or M&M's family. Bryon starts wondering if he really knows his friend, Mark, or not because of the things Mark is doing. =
 * 10) = Bryon was outside Terry Jone's house, picking up Mark, when Tim Curly and his brother came and beat up Bryon. They did this for cutting off Angela's hair, Bryon took the blame for it when it was really Mark who did it. Getting beat up changed Bryon's attitude because he realized he was tired of the game everyone played, one guy gets bat up then beats up the other guy. =
 * 11) = While M&M was at the hippie house, he tried some bad drugs and went on a "Bad trip". He was mentally sick and was taken to the hospital right away to be checked on. Bryon is moved because he is sick about what's happening to M&M, and is angry because M&M's lifew is ruined now. =
 * 12) = Bryon finds a container of pills that can make kids become crazy, like M&M. He then realizes that Mark is a pusher, a person who sells it to people for money. That is how Mark was getting all the money. Bryon goes then and calls the police to come arrest Mark. =
 * 13) = After Mark is arrested, Bryon became numb and his relationship with his friends became distant, not there anymore. It was like he was like a shell, hollow and empty. He didn't date anymore, got good grades, but he didn't remember what they learned in class. His attitude towards life became not really caring, he didn't really feel anything, didn't give attitude to anyone, he was just miserable. =
 * 14) = Bryon was feeling worn out, tired. He was too worn out to care about anyone and just tired. Bryon was mixed up and confused at the end of the book. =
 * 15) = I felt that the book was a good book and that it taught you a good lesson. It told you of the consequences of taken drugs and what it can do to you. The life messages I learned from this book is that you should never take drugs and that your not going to be young forever, so you should enjoy it before it's gone and you won't be able to get it back. =