Lindsay+R

="That Was Then This Is Now'' = =By﻿: S. E. Hinton = 1) Bryon and Mark are the main characters in "That Was Then, This is Now." They are best friends that live in a city. Bryon and Mark have been friends since they were little and they live together with Bryon's mom. 2) The two people Bryon meets at the hospital are Mike and Cathy. Mike was a boy who stuck up for an African American girl, and got beat up for it. Cathy was the older sister of Bryon's friend, who happened to work in the food court of the hospital. 3) The kind of relationship Bryon had with Charlie was a good one. Charlie worked at a local bar by Bryon's nieghborhood. Bryon and Mark would go there, ocassionaly, for Cokes. 4) At the dance, Mark was with his friend, Ponyboy Curtis. Then a boy was picking a fight with Ponyboy and when Mark stepped in the boys hit Mark on the side if his head with a beer bottle. Mark had to go to the hospital to get stiches for the cut. 5) In his private conversations with Mark, Bryon begins to discover how much they are growing apart. And realizes how different they are getting. 6) One night Bryon and Mark went to Charlie's bar to play a geam of pool. Even though Charlie warned them about playing, they still insisted to play. Since Bryon is a great pool player, they ended up winning. As Bryon and Mark were leaving the two guys they were playing tried to attack them, they told Bryon and Mark that they had a gun and just in time Charlie came out. They men had shot and killed Charlie right then. 7) Mark and Cathy, Bryon's girlfriend, dont like each other. Mark thinks Cathy is taking Bryon away from him, while Cathy thinks Mark is mean and immature. 8) Mark cuts off Angela's hair after Bryon and him get her drunk and she passes out. He does this because he wants to get back at her for having somebody put a bottle to his head. 9) The discovery Bryon finds out about Mark is when they were in the car when Mark cut off Angela's hair. His discovery was that Mark was couragous and nice which made everyone want to be his friend. 10) One night at Terry Jones' house while Bryon was waiting for Mark to come back, two guys, the Shepards, heard what happened to Angela and beat Bryon up because he confesed it was him and not Mark. They hurt Bryon so bad he had to go the hospital. That was when he realized that he didn't hate the two guys which made Mark very annoyed because Bryon didn't want Mark getting back at them. 11) In Chapter 9, Bryon and Cathy went to the hippie house that M&M went to, to get him back. They found out that M&M took a drug called LSD, which causes you to hallucinate. This moved Bryon because he was one of the people who let M&M do this to himself. 12) One night Bryon wanted a cigarret, so he went under Mark's bed to get one but instead he found the drug that M&M used since there were too many to be taking them all he assumed MArk was selling them, whih he was. Bryon was so shocked and dissapointed in Mark that he called the police. Then after they took Mark away, Bryon thought what if he asked Mark to stop selling them? He probably would, have but nothing can change that now. 13) As Bryon's adittude changes so does his life. He was perfectly happy with Cathy but then after what he had done to Mark he didn't go out with Cathy anymore. Also since Mark was gone, Bryon had nothing to do or anyone to hang out with. Then Bryon went to visit Mark in jail, Mark told Bryon he hated him and never wanted to see him again, which changed Bryon's life forever. 14) At he end of the book Bryon feels that he has lost everyone that had made him happy and realized that "that was then, this is now." <span style="background-color: #ac00ff; color: #ff00b3; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">15) I thought this book was very good and inspiring. I think that the life lesson here was that have fun now and try to be happy with what you have and if you mess up even once you could be changed forever.