ccarpenter

** ﻿1. Bryon and Mark are 16 years old and are best friends. They always are mistaken for brothers because Mark lives with Bryon. They both get into a little bit of trouble because they are hustlers. Mark is a bad kid without knowing it and can get away with almost anything, while Bryon is leaving Mark behind and growing up. ** //2. First, he meets Cathy, who he eventually ends up dating, at the snack bar. Cathy is M&M's sister. Then, he meets a boy named Mike Chambers, who was beaten badly after trying to help a black girl who was attacked.// 3. Bryon and Charlie are pretty close. Bryon dated Charlie's sister, but when they broke up, //he stayed friends with Charlie. Charlie allows Mark and Bryon into his bar to hustle even though they're too young.// //4.Bryon takes Cathy to the dance, but the dance is concurrent with a fight Mark got into in the parking lot. Mark goes to the hospital after saving Ponyboy Curtis, his friend from an attacker, but is okay. // 5.In his private conversations with Mark, Bryon learned that they are growing up and apart at the same time, they also learned things weren't like they used to be. 6. Charlie died while trying to save Bryon and Mark from an angry victim of their hustling. Bryon feels awful because he thinks it's his fault, while Mark just thinks that there is nothing he can do to change it //.// 7. Mark and Cathy do n't like each other at all. It is mostly because Mark is full of disdain and anger toward Cathy for spending too much time with Bryon. 8. Mark gives her booze cuts off Angel's beautiful hair for revenge. She got someone to attack Ponyboy for ignoring her, but he attacked Mark. 9. Bryon learns a few things. First, he learns that Mark was happy his parents died so he could live with Bryon. Second he learned that Mark thought they were growing apart too. Finally, he learned that Mark doesn't worry about what happened in the past. He never asks himself "What if..." 10.**Bryon takes a bad beating from the Shepards, Angela's brothers.They do this for payback after Mark cut Angela's hair. This changes his attitude because he becomes sick of the fights and revenge and just wants it to stop.** 11.In Chapter 9,M&M(Baby Freak) did acid and went crazy. He was talking about spiders in his stomach and other crazy stuff. This moved Bryon because M%M was a good, trusting kid, but now had a nervous, untrusting and fearful look in his eyes. This made Bryon despondent, and it made him want to cry. 12. Bryon discovers Mark is selling drugs, and calls the police. I believe it was because of how moved he was by M&M and he was still in shock.
 * __T hat was Then, This is Now __ ﻿ __S.E Hinton __ **

13. Bryon just stopped caring about everything, including Cathy, Mark, and is old friends. He has a terrible attitude toward life and cannot find happiness. 14. At the end of the book, Bryon doesn't enjoy life at all and is depressed. It seems as though life is flying by and he doesn't even care. 15. I enjoyed this book even though it had a negative ending. I feel it showed what reality is like and didn't end how people wanted it to end, but how it would have in reality. It taught me many things. For example, I learned that doing the right thing can have just as bad, or worse, consequence than the bad thing to do. I also learned the harmful effect of some drugs and alcohol. But the most important thing I learned is that bad things happen, and that you just have to get through those times and look at the better side of things.