That Was Then, This Is Now Chapter 4

Yes.

Does the district have a nicer part of town?

Yes and YES!

Does the district that Bryon live in include a crummy part of town? Is it's Bryon's town.

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Mark never bothered to do what when he was young?

The drive-in manage put Bryon and Mark in the back of a pickup truck to take them to the police station, but they jumped out while the car was driving.

What happened after Bryon and Mark got caught sneaking in the drive-in movie?

The fight made Mark look heroic and there was many different versions of the story.

What happened at school after the school dance?

The Socs were spending a lot of money trying to look poor as they used to to look rich.

What observations did Bryon make about the Socs' outer appearance?

Bryon thought he got invited to their parties because they liked him, but it was actually because they were scared of him.

What realizations did Bryon come to about going to the Socs' parties?

Cowboy books such as Lone Cowboy by Will James.

What type of books did Bryon read to Mark (when they were young) and give an example?

Civil War. Bryon and Mark fought with chains and barefisted with Socs and other grease gangs.

What version of gang fighting did Bryon and Mark play? What did they do and who did they fight with?

Mark was always the hub of a circle of people and Bryon was always with Mark.

What was Bryon and Mark's relationship with outside people back then?

Bryon went to a big high school. It graduated about seven hundred kids, and the senior class was the smallest class, so you can see how big it really was.

What was Bryon's school like?

Mark went to school out of boredom.

What was Mark's purpose in attending school?

Bryon and Mark could understand each other well because they think alike. The difference is that Mark usually said it, and Bryon didn't.

What was so similar between Bryon and Mark's thoughts. What the difference?

In the past the Socs and the greasers fought.

What was the history between Socs and greasers?

They'd take something that looked fast and go to the expressway and drag.

What was the process of hot-wiring cars for Mark and Bryon?

Everyone was going to believe what they want to believe and hearing the truth wasn't going to change their minds.

What was the school's reaction when Bryon told everyone the real story?

Charlie didn't seem too interested because he got his draft notice.

When Bryon gave Charlie's car back, what was Charlie's response?

Mark is on probation for hot wiring cars so he needs to go to the police station once a week and tell his probation officer that he isn't going to steal cars anymore, but Mark doesn't have a way to arrive to downtown because he doesn't have a car to arrive there, there aren't buses at that hour, and he can't walk because there isn't enough time during his lunch hour.

Why did Mark hot wire the principal's car?

The probation officer will pick Mark up.

How did Mark's situation end?

There was hardly any fighting going on between the Socs and greasers. It was also hard to tell the difference between a Soc and a greaser because the greasers wore their hair down on their foreheads instead of combed back and the Socs were trying to look poor.

How's the relationship between Socs and greasers currently?

Bryon and Mark climbed over the back fence at a drive-in movie.

In the past, Bryon and Mark got caught doing what?

Yes.

Was Bryon a hustler at a young age?

Bryon and Mark got on the roof of a two-story shopping center and shot water pistols at the people passing below. Bryon and Mark would later run from a cop Mark drenched with his water pistol.

What did Bryon and Mark do at the shopping center?

Pain

What did Mark never admit being in?

Mark would be in pain for a couple of days and that Bryon should keep him quiet and give him aspirin.

What did the doctor say to Bryon when Bryon was calling the doctor on a pay phone?

Everyone was mad at Angela, and sympathized Curtis.

What did the school think of Angela? Curtis?

They'd play poker games, sometimes drunken ones lasting all night, and pool games.

What else did Bryon and Mark do?

No

Does Mark have good grades in school?