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=**That Was Then, This Is Now**= =**by S. E. Hinton**=

1. Bryon and Mark are best friends. Bryon's mom adopted Mark when his parents died and they have been together since they were nine and ten.

2. At the hosiptal Bryon meets M&M's sister Cathy and Mike. Mike is a 13 year old kid who got jumped and none of his family members ever came to see him.

3. Bryon and Charlie have a relationship that allows Bryon, who is only 16, to go into the bar that Charlie owns and make money. Bryon is good friends with Charlie becasue he lets him do this, Bryon is also allowed to use Charlie's car.

4. At the dance, Mark tries to stop a fight and gets cracked over the head with a beer bottle. He goes to the hospital to get 10 stitches.

5. Bryon begins to discover that he is the only family member Mark has left.

6. Charlie gets shot in the alley trying to help Bryon and Mark from two Texan guys they hustled in pool at his bar. Bryon and mark feel like it is all thier fault that Charlie is dead.

7. Mark and Cathy they start to get to know each other becuase everywhere Bryon and Cathy went, Mark came with them.

8. Mark buys some rum for Angel and she drinks it. When she passes out Mark cut her hair and put her on her front lawn. Mark did this because she hired someone to hurt Curtis but they almost killed him instead.

9. Bryon begins to discover that Mark was under the stairs when he saw his parents shoot each other. Mark told Bryon about some bad things that happened in his life like that he almost died and how he also saw Charlie and his parents die. He said nothing bad has happened to him but Bryon does not think that its true.

10. At Terry Jones' house, Bryon gets beat up by the Shepards. His attitude changes because he would normally want to get even with them but he thinks about Mike and how he does not want to get even with the black people that hurt him, so he decides not to get back at the Shepards.

11. M&M thinks there are spiders in him. This moves Bryon becasue he thinks it is his fault for letting him run away that he feels like this.

12. Bryon makes the discovery in Mark's bedroom that he is a drug dealer. Bryon calls the cops on Mark and he goes to jail.

13. Bryon's relationship with his frinds and his attitute toward life changes because Bryon has gotten rid of all the grudges he was holding onto. His attitude changed after that because he has decided to always be nice to people.

14. At the end of the book Bryon feels sick because he turned in Mark.

15. I liked this book becasue is was interesting. I also liked the setting, the urban area in the 60's. The life message that the book teaches is don't do or sell drugs becasue you could end up in state prision and if you are a good person bad things can still happen to you, but you have to make good decisions.