That Was Then This Is Now Analysis

In the book it Bryon talks about how after he started dating Cathy him and Mark didn’t really hang out and have fun anymore. Bryon matures and doesn’t hang with Mark and becomes more selfless he said,” I had quit thinking about myself.” He was talking about how he now cared for Cathy and M&M. The final thing he did for maturing in the book was do the right thing even though he didn’t want to. He called the cops

The book I am reading is That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton. This book is in the first person point of view. In the beginning of the book it starts off by telling you about the two main characters of the story which are Mark and Bryon. The story is told by Bryon. Bryon and Mark consider each other to be brothers because Mark doesn’t really have a family. They live at home with Bryon’s mom. The two boys go to their friend Charlie’s bar all the time and the book introduces Charlie. Mark and Bryon are both under age and they are not supposed to be in the bar but Charlie lets them come in and buy some cokes. They owe Charlie money so they went to M&M. M&M is a friend of theirs.

He links M&M condition with Mark selling drugs, which also explains where he has been getting all the money. Bryon ends up calling the cops. When Mark gets home he try’s defend what he’s done, Bryon then realizes that Mark has no sense of right or wrong what so ever. The cops come and take Mark away while he’s asking Bryon why he’s doing this. The next morning Bryon in not sure if what he did was right. He realizes he no longer loves Cathy and grows away from her. Later he testifies against Mark in court. In which his dumbness gets him five years in the state reformatory. Bryon ends up devoting himself to work where he gets a promotion from sack boy to clerk. At the end of the summer Bryon decides to go and see Mark. There he tries to apologize and talks about the good times they had but Mark rejects it saying “that was then, this is now.” Later mark gets sent up the river to the state prison. Bryon says he has lost his ability to care anymore he thinks about the events of the previous year trying to figure out what happened to make these things happen. He wishes he was a kid again when he had all the answers.

In the novel, That Was Then, This Is Now, by S.E. Hinton, the protagonist, Bryon, is clearly a dynamic character. The book starts off with Bryon and his adopted brother, Mark, being almost identical. They do everything together and are not only brothers but best friends too. Only, Bryon does not stay this way. Throughout this coming-of-age novel, he matures and changes, growing away from Mark. This causes several difficulties between the two boys, as they both must learn to live with the change. This change is distinctly displayed throughout the novel. For one, Bryon’s dynamic character is shown on page 100, where he says, “in the past I thought in terms of ‘we,’ now I was thinking in terms of ‘me.’ ” This quote obviously shows how Bryon is

The book That was Then, This Is Now is about to really good friends Bryon and Mark starting to go their separate ways. Bryon was a 16 year old hustler who lived in a hood. His mother was poor and she had adopted his best friend Mark. Mark was an illegitimate who was adopted by new parents that got in a drunken fight and killed each other. Mark was a thief, and he always got away with everything that he possibly could do. Teen kids in there element who thought they could rule the world, everything was theirs and that nothing could possibly go wrong. They did everything bad together smoke, drink, jump kids for their money, steal, skip school, take drugs and get into gang brawls.

After Charlie, Mark and Bryon’s really good friend, died, Bryon didn’t really hang out with Mark as much because Mark didn’t understand how Bryon felt whereas Cathy, Bryon’s new girlfriend, might not have understood, but she knew what to say to Bryon. This shows that Mark doesn’t like Bryon hanging around with Cathy all the time. This matters because the boys are best friends and Bryon is realizing the difference between the two. Additionally, Bryon didn’t like fights anymore but Mark still got a real kick out of them. The authors shows this by saying, “It was a normal childhood. I used to be able to get all uptight about a fight, look forward to it. Nowadays it was getting a little boring” (pg 66). Mark was injured after getting beat up by some guy Angela had asked to go after Pony so Bryon was staying home with Mark, reading to him, and they were talking about their childhood. This shows that Bryon doesn’t enjoy the stuff he use to do when he was younger. This matters because Bryon is realizing that he can’t get through life hustling pool players and robbing people so this means he is growing

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First of all Bryon’s actions demonstrate the theme of conflict helps us grow and mature. In the story, Bryon confronts Kenny about his depression and when he crying. In the text it says “Bryon let me sniff and wipe my hand across my eyes before he slid my head back onto the linoleum and stood up.

“Hey you, give me your money” Wesley yelled. But know he has changed a lot from that. This report is about the Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, By David Lubar. A summary of the book is that this is Scott’s first year in highschool, so he is nervous. So he decides to make a journal for his new little brother on what to do and what not to do. He tries to do many things just so a girl will notice him. He also loses a lot of friends but makes many new friends, including Wesley and Lee. In this book, many people changed, but one changed the most out of all them and this was Wesley. This is because he went from hurting kids, to not. Also, he did not have many to any of friends when this story started, but as it got close the end he had two really good friends. Read more to see why Wesley changed the most over the course of the book and other did not.

Later, on page 69, he remarked, “that was then, and this is now”. This clearly shows that Bryon is a dynamic character because he changes from a kid always messing around and possibly doing illegal things, to a more mature kid who isn’t like that youngster he used to be. Furthermore, Bryon also remarks, on page 107, “ ‘I got a job in the supermarket and I did a pretty good job changing my attitude’ ”. This shows that Bryon is a dynamic character, not only because he changed his attitude, which he clearly states in the quote, but also because he moved on from hustling to make money, after the texan’s incident, to getting a job and working to earn money This shows a huge change on his part because in the beginning of the novel he would always earn money dishonestly; he and Mark would usually hustle pool at their friend Charlie’s bar. Additionally, in the first few chapters of the novel, Byron calls himself a lady killer, but on page 125, he states, “I was getting more and more serious about

It is something necessary, and can be change quite easily by people and characters. There were many relationships and decisions impacted, and Bryon always wondered, “What if all this did not happen?” Before M&M ran away, Bryon and Cathy were a perfectly happy couple. But after he ran away, Cathy, being the closest sibling to M&M, was extremely worried about him and started becoming hysterical. Bryon became increasingly worried about Cathy and M&M as the days went on. After one crazy night of looking and finding M&M weak and sick from taking drugs, Bryon came back home, shook, when he found a bottle of pills under his best friend, Mark’s, bed. On impulse, he called the cops on his best friend. After seeing what had happened to M&M, Bryon was troubled at the fact that Mark was selling harmful drugs to innocent children. If Bryon hadn’t experienced M&M’s escape from home, he may have made a better and more realistic decision. Now, what if all this hadn’t happened? If M&M had not run away and just talked to his father instead, he would have never taken drugs, Cathy wouldn’t have gone hysterical, there would have been a smaller chance of Bryon calling the police on Mark, and Mr. Carlson would have still learned his lesson. In other words, things would have been much better. Overall, all because M&M decide to ran away from his problems, a lot change very quickly, and for the

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