9- I think that Bryon's mother did not raise the boys good enough. I completely agree that a mother should give a certain amount of liberty to their children but Bryon and Mark got that liberty too early. I find that it is irresponsible to raise kids that way. Because the two boys were showed to life in the streets at such a young age, I believe that they picked up bad habbits from bad people. Beating people up and getting caught for auto theft is not suppose to happen at such a young age. On the other hand, Bryon's mother raised both of the kids on her own which makes it more understandable that she did not get a second opinion about her decisions towards her loved ones.

10- To start off, I do not agree at all with Mark. He does not realise that so many things happened to him during his childhood up until now. His parents passed away, he saw Charlie getting shot to death right next to him etc... I think that Mark never wants to aknowledge what he has been through so he keeps saying that when you are young it is all about fun and games when it really isn't. I believe and hope that he realises soon enough that horrible events happened in his past and that he needs to make a change in his behaviour for it to not have an impact on him for his futur.

11- This quote becomes prophetic because Mark never forgives and certainly never forgets when somebody  hurts him. In this case, even though Angela was feeling helpless and lonely, Mark, jumped to the occasion to hurt her. Because of Angela, with the whole Curtis situation, he could have been killed! Even though she is not the person that hurt him, he knows that she caused a lot of trouble to himself and his ''brother'' to get his revenge. On the bad side, Mark did not think about the consequences to his action and could get his brother beat up.

12- In my opinion, I believe that Mark knows where to find M&M because he has more friends and connections that Bryon ever knew about. I also think that Mark knows the place because that ''money'' that he makes is from drug dealing or something like that. We knew that M&M went somewhere sketchy and the fact that Mark knows a place like that, for me, confirms that he has friends and/or contacts that he tries to keep away from his brother. Anyhow, we will need to keep reading to know the exact reason why Mark knew where M&M was! :)