TWT+Alexis

THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW

My favorite scene from //ThatWasThenThisIsNow// that was included in both the book and the movie was sad yet, frustrating. This scene is when Bryon finds the LSD that he thinks Mark is selling to kids like M&M. This leads into a silence between Mark and Bryon. What I mean by silence is in the book and in the movie Bryon does not say a word to Mark he just sits in the chair while Mark has no clue in the world why Bryon is just stareing at him with a disgusted face of hurt and betrayal.This scene also includes similarites and differences that were changed in the movie instead of following the book in the seires of events that happened.

Here are some simularities and differences from both the book and the movie, Bryon found the drug LSD underneath the mattress in the book and movie but, In the book, Bryon was looking for cigarettes and found the drug in a cylinder. In the movie Bryon new that Mark was selling drugs. This lead into Bryon looking for the drugs then finding them in a bag underneath the mattress. Another differnce between the book and the movie is that Bryon did not call the cops on mark. Bryon and Mark got into a fight because, Bryon told mark to leave and to never come back. Next Mark punched Bryon took the car and left. Mark was speeding after he took the car and this is how he got put in jail and, it was all over a fight that could have been solved by reasoning with one another. So Mark then gets sent to jail for reckless driving. In the book though Mark is sent to jail because, Bryon is so angry that he thinks Mark is selling drugs to kids like M&M. So Bryon calls the cops on Mark for selling LSD that Mark probably didnt even sell to M&M. The cops took Mark away and pretty much parted Bryon and Mark ways from each other forever.

A scene that I did not like in the book and the movie is, when M&M has taken the LSD drug and hes confused and sees colors and spiders everywhere, and he thinks they will hurt him. M&M never becomes the same person again. Some simularites and differences between the book and the movie are, Bryon and Cathy find M&M at the hippie house but, a different way in the book M&M is hudiled in a coner but in the movie they just find him on the ground. In both the book and movie Cathy and Bryon take M&M to the hospital in the car. Then next while their in the car M&M starts talking about spiders and how they will hurt him and the different colors they are. In the movie M&M just talks about the different colors he sees and he just keeps screaming trying to get out of the window while Bryon was holding him down and Cathy was driving saying M&M what did you do to yourself baby, Why! Did you do this! Why! Then they finally arrive at the hospital to meet Mr.Carlson at the hospital in both the book and the movie. Finally at the end of the book Bryon sees M&M at a store and M&M's not normal but, in the movie Bryon does not see M&M at all in the store.

I picked these scenes for many reasons. I beleive that the scenes I have picked from both the book and the movie are great examples of comparing and contrasting in many ways. I also strongly agree that my differences and simularites are very well played out. Finally to end I know that I have enough differneces and simularities to have a well thought out paper. In conclusion everything I should possibly need to close off a paper, should be very well thought out and correctly answered.

Great detail and lengthy discussion. Favorite grade is 98 and least is a 97. CP