Love And Hate Essays (1248 words) - That Was Then, This Is Now

Love And Hate Sarah Leslie 11-2-99 English I. Bibliographical information Hinton, S.E. That was Then, This is Now. New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, 1971 II. Setting This story was about 2 boys (Bryon and Mark). Bryon was the oldest. He was sixteen and Mark was 15. They both got into alot of trouble. They enjoyed fighting, and they were pool hustlers. Mark had moved in with Bryon and his mother when he was little. His parents had gotten into a fight and shot each other. III. Plot Structure I believe this story was a man versus himself, because all through the book Bryon was constantly changing. He and Mark started to grow apart. He started to fall in love with a girl. He also had to deal with turning his best friend/brother into the police. He had to learn to forgive himself. Towards the end Bryon turned Mark into the police. He had found drugs under Mark's mattress. Mark had been bringing home money and Bryon finally found out where it was coming from. Mark had been selling drugs. Bryon did not know what to do thus, he called the police. When Mark came home and Bryon told him, Mark was shocked. In court Mark would not even look at Bryon and when Bryon went to see him Mark said that he hated him. IV. Plot Summary Bryon and Mark were friends/brothers. Mark moved in with them when he was 9. His parents had gotten into a fight and ended up shooting each other. Mark and Bryon did everything together. They were big pool hustlers. They would go into Charlie's bar and find someone to play pool with. Then they would end up with all his money. Bryon was friends with Charlie. That's how they were able to go into the bar. Bryon was 16 and Mark was 15. They both loved getting into fights. One day they were walking with M&M,a thirteen year old who loved M&M's. When three guys tried to jump M&M. M&M did not like to fight thus, Mark and Bryon stopped it. Bryon and Mark went to visit Bryon's mother in the hospital. She told them about a boy, Mike, across the hall who never had any visitors. Thus she asked them to go see him. bryon did not want to thus, he went to the snack bar and he saw a girl he knew. Her name was Cathy and he had not seen her for a few years. He ended up asking her to go to a dance and she said yes. Bryon went back upstairs to where Mark was and he met the boy who his mother told them about. He looked pretty bad. He had been beaten up by a colored man. Mike had brought a colored girl home because she had missed her bus and because his friends had been harassing her. When they got to her house she told one of the guys to beat him up. Mike told Bryon that he did not hate them for doing that and Bryon thought about it. At the dance that Saturday Mark ended up getting into a fight. Some guy tried to pick a fight with one of his friends and he tried to stop it. The guy smashed a bottle over Mark's head. Mark became unconscience and the police arrested the guy. Bryon rode with him to the hospital. He was fine and only had to get stiches. One day Mark and Bryon went into Charlies bar to play some pool. They ended up hustling some guys. When they left the guys pulled them into an alley and held a gun to their head. Bryon was scared. Charlie came out with a gun and told them to drop it. Then Bryon and Mark walked over to Charlie. As they did that the guys fired and Charlie pushed Bryon out of the way. Mark picked up Charlies gun and started shooting back. When they had finally left Bryon tried to get up but Charlie was on top of him. Then they noticed that Charlie was dead. Bryon had a hard time dealing with Charlie's death and he started to see more and more of Cathy. While he and Mark started to drift apart. Bryon