That Was Then, This Is Now
by S.E. Hinton
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Key Facts
Title: That Was Then, This is Now
Author: S. E. Hinton
Type of Book: Novel
Genre: Young adult, coming-of-age story
Original Language: English
Written in: Oklahoma, during the late 1960s/early 1970s
Published in: 1971
Set in: a town in Oklahoma during the late 1960s
Narrator: Bryon Douglas
Point of View: First-person limited
Protagonist: Bryon
Tense: Past, with a switch to present tense in the last few paragraphs
Climax: Bryon, already upset over M&M’s bad experience with LSD, discovers that Mark is selling drugs and calls the police to report him. Mark is taken away in handcuffs.
Falling Action: Bryon hates himself for turning Mark into the police. He breaks up with Cathy and stops caring about anything. He visits Mark once in jail, and it is clear that Mark will hate him forever. Bryon wishes he could go back to being a child, when life was easier.
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