Elizabeth+B.

=**//That Was Then, This Is Now//** = =By S.E. Hinton =


 * 1) Bryon and Mark are best friends, and have been for as long as they can remember. The two boys are like adopted brothers.
 * 2) The young people that Bryon meets at the hospital are Cathy, M&M's sister, and Mike, a boy who was mugged by black men for something that he did not do.
 * 3) Bryon and Charlie, the local bar owner who is known for his tough reputation, have a very loving relationship, almost like father and son, although Charlie would be a tough father to have, in my opinion.
 * 4) At the dance, Angela, Bryon's ex-girlfriend, hires a person to beat up Mark's friend, Ponyboy Curtis, although Mark tries to stop the fight, the attacker strikes against Mark and leaves him with 10 stitches on his head from a beer bottle that was smashed on his head!
 * 5) In his private discussions with Mark, Bryon starts to discover that Mark does not really prefer Cathy. He also realizes that he is changing and is starting to grow up more, although Mark is not.
 * 6) After Mark and Bryon went hustling for some money at Charlie's bar, the two boys find themselves face-to-face with the two Texans they hustled and their guns. Charlie quickly steps in with a shotgun in his hand, but sadly is shot in the head and killed trying to save Bryon and Mark. Both boys are upset about Charlie being killed, but do not want to talk about what had happened that night. The boys both handled Charlie's death differently; Bryon was upset that Charlie had to jump in and die saving the boys, while Mark thinks that Charlie knew what he was getting into.
 * 7) Mark and Cathy do not really like each other that much because Cathy seems to look into people, but Mark doesn't like it when people do that, and Cathy does not like Mark's attitude towards her looking into Mark, making it awkward for Bryon. They also do not like each other because Mark seems to think that Cathy is taking Bryon away from him.
 * 8) Mark gets revenge on Angela for getting someone to attack his friend, and then hurting him in the process. By getting revenge, Mark gets Angela drunk and when she passes out, he cuts off all of her long, silky, black-blue hair.
 * 9) In chapter seven, Bryon begins to realize that he is changing and has been since he started going out with Cathy, while Mark has not; the boys have been growing apart ever since.
 * 10) At Terry Jones's house, Bryon gets badly beat up by Tim and Curly Shepard because he and Mark cut off Angela's hair when she was drunk. Bryon then realizes that he is not mad at the Shepards for beating him up because he wants all of the back-and-forth fighting to stop because he was sick of it.
 * 11) In chapter nine, M&M was finally found at a hippie house, high on weed. He had to be taken to the hospital to get checked out because he was so freaked out while on drugs. This shocks Bryon because he has never known someone this loving, gentle, and trusting to smoke weed and then change so dramatically from the shock of it.
 * 12) In Mark's bedroom, Bryon is looking for a pack of cigarettes under Mark's mattress where he finds bottles of drugs that Mark was selling to people to get money to support the family. Bryon, so shocked by this discovery, calls the police on Mark for being a drug dealer.
 * 13) Bryon's relationships with his friends changes by him breaking up with Cathy and is no longer friends with Mark because he is in jail and Mark now hates Bryon. His attitude towards life changes because Bryon now has a steady job and is starting to apply himself to become a better person in life.
 * 14) At the end of the book, Bryon feels that he has gotten even with Cathy by not being friends with Mark anymore and has also gotten even with Mark by breaking up with Cathy, but still has not gotten even with himself.
 * 15) <span style="color: #00cbff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">I think this book is a very sad book and teaches a main lesson in life of not to do drugs and not to sell drugs because if you do drugs, you could end up like M&M, and if you sell drugs, you could end up like Mark.