In the novel “That Was Then,This is Now,” Bryon and Mark are best friends and over time they start drifting apart. Bryon and Mark has never had a fight before but everyone fights at some point in their relationship. They started drifting apart when they started getting in these arguments and they were still best friends. But not all friendships last forever.
In Chapter 5, When Charlie died, Bryon felt responsible for his death. He couldn’t get over the fact that if he didn’t gamble with the men that Charlie would have been still alive. Mark believed that Charlie didn’t have to come save him and that it was his choice to come. It also showed Bryon on how life really is, after that experience he realized what could happen to him at any moment of life. As he goes on to say that “I was changing and he wasn’t.” When Charlie died it didn’t leave much of an effect on Mark because he’s seen people die everyday. And that after this incident that was the first time Mark and Bryon ever got into an argument.
In Chapter 8, After Bryon got beat up by the Shepherd boys Bryon realized how Mike felt when trying to help the black women get home. He saw that there was no sense in violence and that he did not want Mark to fight the Shepherd boys. After Bryon woke …show more content…
Bryon was not into his right mind and called the cops. By the time Mark got home Bryon told him what he had found and Mark was stunned to hear the Bryon called the cops. Bryon thought Mark would have ran and he didn’t he sat down until the cops showed up. The whole time Mark was saying why to Bryon. This officially ended their friendship, and when Bryon went up to the court to testify on behalf Mark. Bryon said they were like family and then Mark laughed. The next chapter Bryon went to see Mark and Mark didn’t want to talk to him. He told Bryon that they weren’t friends anymore and that when he gets out of juvie that he didn’t want to see him
In Chapter 5, When Charlie died, Bryon felt responsible for his death. He couldn’t get over the fact that if he didn’t gamble with the men that Charlie would have been still alive. Mark believed that Charlie didn’t have to come save him and that it was his choice to come. It also showed Bryon on how life really is, after that experience he realized what could happen to him at any moment of life. As he goes on to say that “I was changing and he wasn’t.” When Charlie died it didn’t leave much of an effect on Mark because he’s seen people die everyday. And that after this incident that was the first time Mark and Bryon ever got into an argument.
In Chapter 8, After Bryon got beat up by the Shepherd boys Bryon realized how Mike felt when trying to help the black women get home. He saw that there was no sense in violence and that he did not want Mark to fight the Shepherd boys. After Bryon woke …show more content…
Bryon was not into his right mind and called the cops. By the time Mark got home Bryon told him what he had found and Mark was stunned to hear the Bryon called the cops. Bryon thought Mark would have ran and he didn’t he sat down until the cops showed up. The whole time Mark was saying why to Bryon. This officially ended their friendship, and when Bryon went up to the court to testify on behalf Mark. Bryon said they were like family and then Mark laughed. The next chapter Bryon went to see Mark and Mark didn’t want to talk to him. He told Bryon that they weren’t friends anymore and that when he gets out of juvie that he didn’t want to see him