That Was Then, This Is Now By S.E. Hinton

That Was Then, This Is Now
By S.E. Hinton

Significance:

i think this work is important because its based on things that actually happened and people should acknowledge that there are people in these situations and that its not cool. There are so many situations like this that used to happen all the time and still do , its important that people realize this. Reasons that someone should to chose to read this is because its well written and it contains interesting material that's usually not expressed by most people, also it cares an interesting and realistic story.

Perspective:
This book was written by S.E. Hinton who grew up in a town were things like this happened regularly, and seeing the cruelty of it she decided to express it in her writing. this book was written between the late 60'S and early 70's , and takes perspective of the gang violence on the street along with the drugs and freedom of the hippies. the author is obviously against the issues she expresses in her work(gang violence , drug dealing ,etc...)

Evidence:
i don't necessarily think the author is trying to make a argument or point as i have mentioned in previous reviews and surely many more to come, so this in my mind excuses all needing of evidence, a story doesn't have to be a argument (unless its a political book) so i think that the idea of having a a section were we need to supply evidence for an argument that we freely assume is there is in my view not of the point.

Connection:
well this story is based on events that happened in neighborhood that the author lived in and it still dose happen in parts of the world. this work doesn't really apply to my life because i don't live in a place were some dude in my house is dealing drugs and I'm also 13 seriously i mean I'm in middle school i shouldn't be out shooting stuff. but i wouldn't say that the event still effects us today mainly because e it wasn't like a historical crime its just "some kid got caught deal ling drugs" its not like effecting us mainly because its fiction and never really happened, though lots of things like it have happened.

Supposition:
lets say if you took out the kid calling the cops on his friend, then well i bet every thing would of been cool and turned out fine, but that didn't happen, but lets say you made these kids uppercase rich kids than even if the one kid was arrested than he wouldn't of gone to prison. i would not of changed this piece at all because the story is really well done and it has a satisfying ending.