Katelynn+B.

//**By: S.E Hinton **//
====**﻿ **==== ====**1. Bryon is a boy in the story, That was Then, This is Now, who likes to get into fights. Although his mom is sick and his dad is dead, his family took in Mark because both of his parents were shot. Mark also likes to get into fights, and Bryon and Mark fight plenty of kids all the time, sometimes to protect other people. **====

====**﻿2. The two young people that Bryon meets at the hospital are Mike Chambers and Cathy Carlson. Mike is in the hospital because he was beat up by black men, and he was accused of harassing a young woman. Cathy is M&M's sister who came home from school. She met Bryon, who took her to a dance later in the story. **====

====**﻿3. The relationship Bryon has with Charlie is the kind of friendship where they fight and disagree a lot, as well as be very great friends. They know each other well because Charlie is the older brother of a girl that Bryon used to date. **====

====**﻿4. At the dance, Angela, Bryon's ex-girlfriend, hired somebody to hurt Curtis because he was ignoring her. Curtis and the boy got into a fight, and just as the boy was going to hit Curtis with a beer bottle, Mark stepped in between them and said, "Hey, come on man, fight fair." After that, the kid looked at him and hit him with the beer bottle in the head, leaving Mark in the hospital with a total of ten stiches in his head. **====

====**﻿5. In his private conversations with Mark, Bryon begins to discover that Mark is still the same, stealing cars and committing other crimes, but Bryon is beginning to grow better and better. **====

====**﻿6. Charlie was shot by two guys that threatened to shoot Bryon and Mark after forcing them to walk into an alley. The two men shot all three of the men, but Charlie was hit above his left eye. Bryon and Mark feel horrible about what happened because they were extremely close to him. As Bryon said in the story, he felt like he was moving in slow motion every single day. **====

====**﻿7. The way Mark and Cathy think of each other is that they don't really like each other because Mark always does something heroic instead of Bryon, such as punching somebody to make them go away, but Cathy is never impressed, she just looks bored. **====

====**﻿8. Mark cut off all of Angela's hair as revenge for the fight that she set up while she was passed out. **====

====**﻿9. In chapter seven, Bryon begins to realize that Mark is beginning to grow apart from Bryon ever since Cathy and Bryon started to date and spend a lot of time together. **====

====**﻿10. At Terry Jones' house, Bryon got beat up by Angela's brothers and two other guys. His attitude changes because all of a sudden he doesn't want Mark and some other guys to get revenge on Tim and Curly for beating him up, he just wants nothing to happen between them. **====

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====﻿**11. In chapter nine, M&M is found at a hippie house, so Bryon and Cathy take him to the hospital to have him checked out because he was acting very strange. It turned out that he had been smoking weed, and he was much thinner. This moves Bryon because he has never known somebody so loving, caring, and nice to smoke weed and change almost automatically.** ====

====<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">﻿**12. The shocking discovery Bryon made in Mark's bedroom was that under Mark's mattress lay some pills that he was selling just to bring money into the house! To stop this, Bryon called the cops and then approached Mark in their shared bedroom to talk about it.** ====

====<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">﻿**13. Bryon's relationship with his friends completely changes because he now is not, and never will be, friends with Mark because he called the cops on him. Also because now Mark is in jail and he hates Bron and will probably never speak to Bryon ever again. Bryon also broke up with Cathy even though they both loved each other. Bryon's attitude toward life changes because throughout the book, he was leaning toward not fighting as much, and not wanting to get get revenge when somebody hurt him. He also got a jobthat he kept for a long time, and he started to become a much better person in his life.** ====

====<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">﻿**14. At the end of the book, Bryon feels that what he did to Mark was very wrong and that now his mother hates him even though that is not true. He also doesn't even love Cathy anymore, so they broke up and now she is dating Ponyboy Curtis. He feels that he got even with Mark for Cathy, then he got even with Cathy for Mark, but he doesn't stop getting even with himself.** ====

====<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">﻿ <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">﻿**15. I think that this book was a very sad book, especially when people got beaten up or were killed. I also likesd this book because it teaches very important lessons on drugs. The life message that this book teaches is that you should never do drugs because you will almost always end up hurt. You should also never sell drugs or you will probably get caught, either by somebody very close to you or by somebody you sell drugs to. Even though it is bad, if you do drugs you will end up like M&M did, and if you sell drugs, you will end up like Mark did (in jail, you lose a best friend/brother).** ====