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Date : When the book was written

Rough part of town : Page 12

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Direct :
Page 13 : Small and compact, with strange golden eyes  and hair to match and a grin like a friendly lion, pretty strong
Indirect : Agressive, and when someone insults him or his friends he is not gonna hesitate to pick up a fight.
He doesn't seem to express much regret or afterthoughts, as seen when he was selling drugs and seemed to have no problems with it.

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Direct :
Page 13 : Big guy with dark hair and eyes, like a Saint Bernard Puppy
Indirect :  He is quite the charmer with the ladies : Page 13
He is more calmed and reserved than he used to be, and even if someone beats him up he is not gonna want retaliation.

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Direct :
Page 10 - Big, though guy and friendly
Page 44 - Really smart and can calculate easily
Indirect :
Page 84 - He is brave because he is ready to take a lot of risks to save the kids from the Texans.
Page 82 - Generous because he let Bryon borrow his car

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Serious, trusting look and rarely smiles. Big gray eyes and charcoal-colored hair, kind of a hippy : Page 14
Indirect : He trust almost everyone, at least until he got a bad trip at the end of the book. He is very cultivated, and reads a lot of newspapers.

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Obtain something in a hunderhanded way

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Not very good

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Mark hates Bryon by the end of the book, but Bryon just considers the now convict Mark as another person, the brother he knew being gone.
Page 158-159 : Mark says he wanted to make sure he hated Bryon.
Page 158 : Mark says that Bryon was once a great friend.

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Not in a good spot, and some pretty wild things happen there : Page 9

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House is filled with posters : Page 121
Steps painted a different colors and kids smoking weed : Page 122

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Friendship is very important throughout the book, and particularly how relationships evolve over time. For example, Mark and Bryon were like brother at the beginning of the book, but by the end Mark hates Bryon.

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Cathy and Mark never really like each other, mostly because they were competing for the attention of Bryon.
Page 100 : Cathy says she is fighting with Mark over Bryon.

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Towards the end of the book, Bryon start blaming himself for everything bad that's happening around him.
Page 156 : Bryon's mom says he is not getting even with himself.

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Mark shows a complete disregard for any rules or laws. He will only stop something if he is asked to by someone he loves.
Page 124 : Marks says the law isn't necessarily right.
Page 147 : Mark says he doesn't see what's wrong with selling drugs but will stop if it bothers Bryon.

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Mark and Bryon are growing up throughout the book, and it's a key component to the narrative. When Bryon starts talking about the "canyon" between him and his friend, he says that it's because he grew up, but Mark didn't, and the latter doesn't want to accept anyone else in the life of Bryon, such as Cathy.

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This book is filled with these. For example, Bryon talks about how the police never goes into the poor neighborhoods, and instead prefer to patrol rich places. Also, we see that no help is offered from the government towards the family. A consequence of that is that when Bryon's mother felt sick, the two kids had to steal stuff in order to survive. This might have initiated Mark to start doing shady things at a young age, all leading up to him not caring about selling drugs.

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Two-lane street with drive-ins and lots of teenagers : Page 96