Sydney+C.

1. Bryon and Mark are the two main characters in the story. They are best friends and also live together. The treat each other like brothers. Mark gets away with a lot of things like drinking and hotwireing cars. 2. At the hospital Bryon meets Cathy, M&M's older sister who he likes, and boy named Mike Chmabers who was mugged by two men. They mugged him because he drove a girl home who was being harrased tthen she told them he hurt her.
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3. Bryon and Charlie, the local bar owner, have a good relationship. But Charlie dosnt give Bryon special treatment when it comes to paying bills. However he does let them be in the bar and borrow his car.

4. At the dance Bryon was dancing with Cathy. Then they heard a scream and everyone rushed outside, but Bryon and Cathy stayed inside. Then Bryon was told that Mark was hurt so he shoved through the crowd to make sure he was ok. Mark got in the middle of a fight with Ponyboy Curtis and another person. The other person smashed a bottle on Mark's head so he was taken to the hospital

5. Bryon discovers that Mark and him think very much alike where as Mark says things and Bryon just thinks them.

6. Charlie was killed by two people that Bryon and Mark hustled. They both felt very bad about the hole thing but Bryon felt like it was their fault because Charlie had told them to be very careful about hustleing people and Charlie had taken the bulet for them.

7.Mark and Cathy 's relationship is not very friendly. They do not like eachother and mostly fight over Bryon, although it is not said. However they both love Bryon and would do anything for him.

8. Mark cut of Angela's hair. He did this becasue he was mad at her for sending someone to beat up Curtis and then beating up him. He was also drunk.

9. In chapter 7, Bryon discovers that Mark still wants to be a kid, free from worry. However Bryon knows that its time to grow up.

10. At Terry Jones' house the shephards beat him up, almost killing him. This made him against fights.

11. In chapter 9, M&M was found at a house with hippies. He was addicted to a very powerful drug. This moved Bryon because he realized that he thought of M&M as his brother.

12. Bryon discovers that Mark was bringing home so much money because he was selling drugs. Thhis leads to Bryon calling the police.

13. Bryon's relationships with his friends completely change because﻿ he doesn't care about anyone anymore. His attitude towards life becomes very dull and gloomy.

14. At the end of the book he feals that he is unable to care about anything anymore because of all that has happend. He wants to be a kid again.

15. This was a very good book. In the begining it wasn't my favorite but towards the middle i really started enjoying it. I believe the life lesson that is taught from this book is to live your life that is happening at the moment never look back on things and think "what if" in the end you will be happier with yourself. Also to show people you care about them because you never know when they could be gone.