For Bryon, whose life has been one kneejerk reaction to violence after another, the idea of forgiveness confounds him. At the hospital, Bryon has another interaction that spurs self-questioning: he meets a boy who was badly beaten yet doesn’t blame his attackers. But, starting with their friend M&M’s disapproval of their actions, the novel chronicles the beginning and evolution of Bryon’s existential crisis.īryon and Mark’s mother is in the hospital at the beginning of the book. Neither one has thought twice about their actions before now. Their lives are comprised of fun and fighting as they look for people to beat up while defending their friends from beatings.
At the start of the novel, Bryon and Mark are doing their usual routine of hanging out and hustling at the local pool hall.
The main characters are Bryon Douglas and his best friend/adopted younger brother Mark. GradeSaver, 8 March 2016 Web.“That Was Then, This Is Now” is the second of five novels by S.E. "That Was Then, This is Now Relationship to S. Next Section Literary Elements Previous Section Imagery Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Liang, Lavinia. Hinton also published the novel Rumble Fish in 1975 it takes places in the same world as the previous two novels, but does not have any specific, explicit overlaps with them. While the environment has remained the same, and even some of the characters are the same, the atmosphere has changed with the times and with Hinton’s own maturity. There are four characters from The Outsiders in That was Then, This is Now: Ponyboy Curtis (who was the protagonist of The Outsiders), Tim and Curly Shepard (who were also antagonists in The Outsiders), and Randy Adderson (a defective Soc in The Outsiders, who has now become a hippie and gives Bryon and Mark a lift to the hospital). For example, the divide between Socs and Greasers is no longer as pointed or emphasized.
Even though only 4 years had passed between these two books, the current social and political history surrounding That was Then, This is Now is already different from that of The Outsiders, and so is the maturity of the tone of the book. Hinton started writing The Outsiders when she was 16 years old, and the book was published when she was 18 That was Then, This is Now was published when Hinton was 22 years old. Hinton’s first and most successful novel, The Outsiders, written in 1967, 4 years before That was Then, This is Now. That was Then, This is Now is set in the same universe as S.
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