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=//__ **That was Then This is Now** __//= =//__ **By: S.E. Hinton** __//= = = **1. Bryon and Mark are the two main characters in the book. Bryon and Mark are like brothers. They almost do everything together. Mark's parents died when Mark was at a young age so Bryon's mom took him in as if he was one of her own.** **2. The two young people that Bryon meets at the hospital are Cathy Carlson and Mike.** **3. The kind of relatinship that Bryon has with Charlie is a fairly close relationship. Bryon sees Charlie every once in a while when he goes to get a drink. Later in the book their relationship remains at the same level, then Charlie saves Bryon and Mark's life in an alley, but dies in the process.** **4. At the dance Mark gets in the middle of a fight and gets hit with a bottle. Mark is then aided by his brother Bryon, and he is nursed back to health.** **5. What Bryon begins to discover in his private conversations with Mark is that Mark and Bryon become to be come less and less apart. Bryon is getting more interested with girls, while, Mark is still into the thrill of the mmoment.** **6. Charlie died while trying to protect Bryon and Mark fromg getting killed by these two guys they have hustled in pool. Bryon and Mark have different feelings about this. Bryon feels very upset and he feels that it is his fault. Mark feels that it is life and thigs like that just happen, and there is nothing anyone or anything can do about it.** **7. Mark and Cathy do not have a good or strong relationship. They are at the point where they do not like to open up conversations with eachother. They do not like eachother at all at most points in the book.** **8. Mark cuts off all of Angel's hair because he was trying to get back at her for all the rotten things she had said and done to Bryon and Mark. Before he does this to Angel, Mark first gets her drunk so he can do this.** **9. In chapter seven, what Bryon begins to discover about Mark is that they are slowly drifting apart. Bryon is becoming more strict about his life, whereas Mark still thinks there should be no rules, and they should get away with everything because they are still kids.** **10. At Terry Jones' house Bryon gets beat up by Tim and Curly Shepard. Bryon's attitude changes by telling his brother not to get even with the Shepards because Bryon thinks that it is just a cirle of fighting and that it is never going to end. Bryon also thinks that it is stupid.** **11. In chapter nine M&M tries some drugs and he scared to death. M&M keeps talking about colors and spiders that were coming out of his stomach. This moves Bryon because he had never known somebody so nice and humble to ever have LSD. Shortly after, Bryon and Cathy rush him to the hospital.** **12. The shoking discovery that Bryon makes in Mark's bedroom was the cylinder full of pills where he keeps his smokes ( under his mattress). Bryon then puts together that he was selling the pills to bring in all of the money. Then almost immediately, Bryon calls the police to turn in Mark.** **13. Bryon's relationship with his friends and his attitude toward life completely changes because Bryon believes that nothing matters in the world anyomore. He keeps saying " what if". He doesn't care about Cathey and he keeps thinking why did I do this to Mark.** **14. Bryon feels sad and depressed at the end of the book.** **15. What I think about this book is that life is full of choices and changes. I think that the life message teaches you to think before you act. If you make the wrong decision, it could change your life dramaticly. **