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That Was Then, This Is Now By: S.E. Hinton

Question Answers:
 * 1) ﻿﻿ Bryon and Mark have lived together ever since Bryon was ten, and Mark was nine. Bryon's mother took Mark into her home because his parents fought very often, and eventually passed away. Ever since the day Bryon and Mark met they have always been best friends, and new that they could count on each other for anything.
 * 2) When Bryon was at the hospital he met Mike Chambers, he was a boy who was injured very badly in a fight that should not have happened. He also saw Cathy, one of his friend's, M&M, sister while he was getting a snack at the hospital cafiteria.
 * 3) Bryon and Charlie have a trustworthy relationship. For example, Charlie would trust Bryon with his wife,if he had one, and his car however he would not trust his actions.
 * 4) At the dance Mark gets hit in the head with a beer bottle, and is unconcious. The fight was ment to be with Ponyboy, but the person withthe beer bottle hit Mark thinking that it was Mark who made him upset. Bryon came running as soon as he found out what happened, and then an ambulence came and took Mark to the hospital with Bryon in the back with him. Mark needed ten stitches in his head, but was luckily let out of the hospital that night.
 * 5) Bryon begins to discover in his private conversation with Mark is how much more Bryon means as a friend to Mark then he realized. Mark said that Bruon was truly his only family, and a real brother.
 * 6) To texans showed up outside of Charlie's bar to start a fight with Bryon and Mark for beating them in poker. The Texans had guns, and Charlie was aware of that so Charlie went outside to save Bryon and Mark. There were a few gunshots, and after the texans ran Bryon and Mark realized that Charlie was dead. Bryon was shook up, numb,and did not feel like himself after Cherlie was shot and at the trial, whereas Mark tried harder to stay strong, and tell the police men what happened.
 * 7) Mark and Cathy do not like each other, and have never been fond of one another even after Mark punched a guy in the face for being rude to Cathy.
 * 8) Angel was very upset with things that were happening in her life so she was very emotional, and tried to explain everything to Bryon and Mark. However Mark hated to see gutsy girls, like Angel, break down so when she fell asleep Mark cut off her long beautiful hair so that it was very short.
 * 9) In chapter seven Bryon discover that Mark was like a lion, and was not afraid or harmed by anyone. This made Bryon realize that this was the reason why everyone wanted to be friendly with Mark.
 * 10) The Shepards showed up at terry Jones's house where Bryon was. They knew that Bryon had something to do with why Angel's hair had been cut so they beat him up. Bryon ended up with a black eye, 15 stitches in his lip, and a smashed rib cage. Bryon's attitude changes because normally he would have wanted revenge on the Shepards right away, instead Bryon forgives them and asks no one to harm them.
 * 11) In chapter 11 Bryon, Mark, Cathy, and her parents continued searching for M&M who ran away a few days before. They eventually found him in a Hippie house acting very different as if he were drugged. M&M explained to Bryon and Cathy about a dream he had of different colored spiders attacking him, and killing him. This worried both Bryon and Cathy so they took him to a hospital to see what was wrong. This moves Bryon because they found out that he took a very harmful drug, and Bryon was sure that M&M was a calm sweet person who would never do anything that could harm himself.
 * 12) Bryon was in Mark's and his room searching for a pack of cigarettes when he found a tube filled with hundreds of pills. He immediatly began to worry, but realized that Mark was selling them because one person could not take that many pills and act normal. Due to this Bryon calls the police, and they come and arrest Mark.
 * 13) <span style="background-color: #e60ae6; color: #020302; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Bryon's relationships with his friends are very weak because ever since Mark was arrested he never felt the same, and did not treat his friends how he should have. His attitude toward life was very negative, he knew that he disobeyed Mark, and regretted what he did.
 * 14) <span style="background-color: #e60ae6; color: #020302; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">At the end of the book Bryon feels very depressed. He was truly no longer friends with Mark, and hated how everything turned out. He could only see the negative things that happened.
 * 15) <span style="background-color: #e60ae6; color: #020302; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I thought that this book was very good. I think that it teaches a very important life lesson to always carry on even when things are very difficult, and no matter what always know your friends and stay close with them throughout your entire life.