Colin+C

THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW **by S.E. Hinton** **1. Bryon and Mark had been best friends and were like brothers. When Bryon was ten and Mark was nine his parents shot each oter in a drunken argument. Bron mother felt sorry and took him in. His mother always wanted alot of kids.**

**2. Bryon was in the cafeteria and met M&M sister Cathy. He also went to vist a kid name Mikey would had been beat up after taking Connie home to her neighborhood by the neighborhood gang.**

**3. Bryon's was friendly with Charlie and asked him for a job. Charlie turned him down for a job because he was a minor and could not work at the bar. He also asked Charlie to borrow his car to take Cathy to a dance.** **4. Bryon and Cathy were inside dancing, when they heard screams from the back parking lot. Curits came in and said Mark was hurt. When we got to Mark, he was unconscious and bleeding. He got hit on the head with a broken bottle at the dance.**

**5. Bryon after he got Mark home and they were talking, Mark told him that he was scared and he felt weird. He told Bryon that he was the only family he had and that we felt like they were brother. He told him that things are staying the same.**

**6. Charlie has received his draft notice, but later found out that he could not go because he had a record. Charlie was shot and killed defending them. They were sorry and depressed about what happened to him and would go sit outside the bar staring at it.**

**7. Mark and Cathy do not like each other. Cathy had the same hostility towards Mark that he had for her.**

**8. Mark cuts off all of Angela's long blue-black hair. He did it for revenge for Angela dumping Bryon before.**

**9. Bryon discovers that Mark's parents were fighting a shot each other becasue the person he thought was his father was not. Bryon begins to see that Mark and him are being to separate.**

**10. Bryon was beat up at Terry Jones' house, becasue he tried to protect Mark and said he cut off Angela hair. He told Mark that he did not want anymore of the getting-even jazz, because it is not worth it.** **11. M&M starts losing it ,because he had gotten some bad acid at the hippie-house he was staying at. Bryon was shocked because M&M was a smart kid. He could tell that he was losing his mind. He felt that M&M was as much of a brother to him as he was to Cathy.** **12. Bryon finds alot of pills under Mark's mattress and realizes that we is selling them. Bryon ends up calling the police on Mark.**

**13. Bryon relationship changes, because Mark who was always like a brother now hates him and is in jail. Bryon's attitude towards life changes since he is no longer friends with Mark or the other friends that he had.**

**14. Bryon feels that he does not know any answers anymore. He wishes that he could go back to being a kid again, so that he would know the answers.**

**15. I feels that it was a sad book. It teaches me that drugs are not the way to go. It also shows me that it can ruin friendships and lives.**