Essay On That Was Then This Is Now

In the book That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton tells the story of two boy who have different points of view on the world. The two boys, Mark and Bryon, who where very close until the end of the book when Bryon turns Mark in for selling drugs. But before that the boys had two very different points of views on life. At the beginning of the book the two boys show no maturity at all. As the book progresses Bryon start to mature little by little. While Mark views and maturity levels stay the same throughout the book Mark had a tough life and it had shown at little through out the book. He had a problem he did not mature at all in the book. He believed that things happen but people can not do anything about it. That they should just roll with life. When Charlie died he didn’t really care. He cared that he save them but even then that wasn’t a lot. The winter after Charlie died the boys became celebrities because of the trial. Mark enjoyed all the attention while Bryon …show more content…
In the book at the beginning he acts exactly like Mark but as the book progresses he starts to become his own person. He doesn’t do things just because he feels like it. He starts to think it through. He starts to mature in many different ways, he doesn’t act on implies and he starts to not like to fight people. Charlie’s death affected him more then it did Mark. He starts to analyze Charlie’s death. He kept thinking about what a horrible thing it was to go out by violence (Hinton 87). Byron begun to realize what a cruel world he lives in. When he got beat up by the Shepards he didn’t want them beat up as revenge. He just want to stop all the fighting even if it means he wont get his revenge (Hinton 129). After M&M overdosed he went home and started to think about things. He said “Life seemed so simple once, now it suddenly seemed complicated” (Hinton 145). Bryon out look on life changed, he started to mature through