THAT WAs then, this is now

CHARACTeRIZATION

• CHARACTER Brian
•  "We ran out and jumped on them, and the one we didn't get took off, o." 
• which was wise for him to do." page 21
• in the beginning he didn't care and liked fight
• "how come your old man shot your mother?  She shot

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• him back but she was dying anyway." page 115
• this shows that he was changing he was starting 
• to wonder about things.
• "That is eating me up, Bryon, and you won't even let me
• get even for you." page 131 this shows he is sick of fighting

author's purpose

• to entertain
• I belive the author's reason was to entertain   
• but also to inform you about some of the 
• actions you make so always think before 
• you do.

quote 1.
this book is written in first person. "yeh"mark said," I guess it would be hard to be a hippie in a hood's part of town".

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quote 2."We're gonna give you a lesson on why not to hustle pool. Just step into the alley, now." this shows that when you don't think before you act, you are not aware of the consequences that will come.

THEME
The over all theme is think before you do. Quote 1. "the way Mark set me up, helped me hustle a lot of pool games. The bad deal is, it's against the law to be in this pool hall if your under age because of the adjoining bar."

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Quote 2. "Nobody had to teach him how to hot wire a car - or pick pocket. "It was a donation."" page 22

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Quote 3. "We're gonna give you a lesson on why not to hustle pool. Just step into the alley."page 45

summary
WHO. Bryon and Mark, they are like brothers.
WHAT. It is about how Bryon and Mark start to drift away as Bryon is changing.
WERE. Tulsa, Oklahoma.
WHEN. Some time in the 1990's

vocab

• pay up.pay up means to give somebody the 
• money you owe them. 
• jumped .means to be ganged up on and beat up or even killed
• rumble . means a gang fight.

CONCLUSION
This is a very good book. I recommend this book because it has action and tells how to friends spread farther apart when one started to change .