That Was Then This Is Now Book Summary

After finding what Josh believed was a safe place to rest for the night ,in the woods, the two settled down and baked a potato. Suddenly, four to five boys attacked them and stole all of their belongings, save Howie’s banjo. Josh was given a black eye, and he received a gash on his head. Joey was only shaken up. They left the woods, and walked into town where Josh was scolded for street brawling. The officer was nice, however, and allowed them to sleep in the jail for the

     Both of the men are called won to Hallas's office where they recieve the good new, they both have made the team. Gale finds out he is the starter. Brian has to settle for second string. During the middle of the year, a tradjety happens. Gale blows his knee. Brian is devistated by this and is very angry that he is first string under such surcumstances. Brian trys to help Gale train to get back to one hundred percent.

As Brian went back to school, he ran into some trouble. He gets in a fight with another student named Carl. Brian almost beat him to death. Someone called the police and an ambulance to take Carl to the hospital. The policemen took Brian to his house to tell his mother. The policemen recommended that he should go to counseling.

Cathy is one of the characters that are so complex in her being that she out of

The difference between the child protagonists and adult antagonists throughout this novel is the generation gap and how adults are coping with danger and survival in the eerie, post-apocalyptic atmosphere differently to the teenagers. Ben is a very interesting character as he can telepathically talk to animals. Ben ensured himself that he will not use this special power after he ran away from Greg who forced him to so he could kill them for the food and skin. As a result, Ben is more vulnerable without this power as he has nothing to defend himself with. Molly, the gang leader is another character who has been detailed effectively. Kelleher describes her as demanding, daunting and powerful character as she forces Ben into doing things. Kelleher describes Greg as greedy as he only uses Ben for his special power so he can keep the dead animals skin for

However, they also have strong differences. Bryon is a big hustler. He tries to get money by playing pool at bars. Mark, on the other hand, is a thief. He sneaks around picking pockets and stealing money from people. Even though both boys have fun fighting and stealing, Bryon starts to see that fighting people for no reason is wrong. Mark still thinks stealing is enjoyable and amusing. Mark is very conceded and only care about himself and his feelings. Unlike Mark, Bryon cares about other people's emotions and thinks before he acts. For example, when Mike Chambers, a boy in the hospital, told his story of how he got beat up, Mark said he would hate that person for the rest of his life. Bryon understood why the person might have done such a terrible

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.

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.

     This is about a guy named Blake and his brother, Quinn.. Blake is an over-cautious teen. His younger brother, Quinn is the opposite. Blake was in a bus accident when he was very young and was the only survivor. Although he has no memory of how he managed to survive the event, it has drastically shaped his personality.

When they are out being bad they like to drive to greasy lake were they can drink beer, smoke pot and howl at the stars. One night they go down to greasy lake and mistaken a car for there friend Tonys and they lay the horn and flash there high beams at it. Turns out not to be tonys car but some strangers. The stranger gets out not happy and begins to fight the gang of kids in the mist of it all the narraighter drops his keys to his car. The stranger seems to be winning the fight until the narratoir grabs a tire iron from under his seat and hits the stranger across the head with it knocking the stranger out. Then another car comes down to greasy lake unable to find the car keys the group of kids runs away into greasy lake. While the narrator is in the water he finds a dead body. The other car turns out to be the strangers friends and they wreck the group of kids car. The narratoir and his friends wait till morning for greasy lake to clear out. Once it does they head back to there car when two girls arrive asking if they seen there friend who we presume is the dead guy in the lake. They tell the two girls no, and they respond by saying how it looks like they had a rough night, and ask if they want to party with them. The narraitoir says no and they get in the car and head

Characters: Although there were a reasonable amount of characters in the story, there were only two that were important and consistent throughout the book. The others didn’t have much of an impact into the story.

The investigator for the team finds out that when the Washington Redskins interested in potential picks they send that player a playbook to look over. Well in the back of the book they tape a 100 dollar bill to the last page. When the Redskins bring the player in to interview them they ask if they read the playbook. Of course most of them say yes, but when told about the 100 dollars they confess that they really did not read the whole thing. But when Bo was asked about the 100 dollars he said “oh ya, good one guys, good one”, he was caught in a lie but would not admit to lying. Bo just showed how unethical he really is, and how he would not be an asset to the team. When Sonny found this out I think he realized that Bo was not the player they wanted. After Sonny found out about the money he called Bo and asked him about his twenty first birthday party and why none of his friends showed up. Bo told Sonny that he really did not remember that night. Sonny had been trying to discover some deception clues to determine if Bo was being deceptive. In the end Sonny found out that Bo was not that player he

Cal is working with his boss and his boss tries to kill a dog so cal stops him and then his boss tries to shoot cal so cal punched him again. Then Cal gets the gun and shoots his boss who is highly respected by the leader of the camp they are in so cal gets james and leaves.

At the party in which Frank gets drunk and begins to make comments she laughs it off as if it is all just a joke. She pretends that because he is drunk she doesn’t care, but she knows that there is truth in his drunken speech. Perhaps because she pretends to not care, it makes her feel less badly about it, as the book suggests in the experiment done by Ekman. This also occurs it seems whenever anyone brings up Cathy’s kind nature toward black people in general. Whether it be the magazine article in the beginning of the movie or when Eleanor confronts her at the end, Cathy always say’s verbally and facially that the allegations are ludicrous. By the end of the movie, it is obvious that the allegations are far from ludicrous and Cathy has realized this as well. Through her staunch denials, she probably convinced herself even for some time that she had no feelings for Mr. Deegan.

Breanna requested evryone meet at the K-Town bar and have a drink in her honor. She also requested everyone share their favorite Breanna story, because there are so