Why I'n Not Where You Are 5-21-63 and Heavier Boots

In Why I'm not Where... Oskar's grandfather is writing a letter to his unborn child is being continued. He tells how his and his wife (Oskar's grandmother) is very rule oriented. In my lifetime I've never seen people so rule oriented as described in the book. It just shows how analytically "boring and strict" they are. There are literally just so many rules. The chapter give a little back story to why the grandfather left the grandmother. In Heavier Boots, Oskar finally puts on his production to the play Hamlet. A bunch of the "Blacks" show up. He is currently still on the A's. They all show up to his fist performance because he has befriended most of them, but as each performance goes on, fewer and fewer people came until his grandmother was the only one left. Now she was kind of being a disruptive audience member and kids in the play were mocking her so he got mad and he had this scene in his head that i thought related to Hamlet. He had gone mad in his head just like Hamlet. After the play, he meets the next black, a 91 or a 92 year old hermit named Abe who hasn't left his house in 24 years (wife died 24 years ago) and Mr. Black has a biographical index with card for everyone who might need a reference one day. Like Tom Cruise = MONEY, steven hawking's is astrophysics, but he does not have one for his father, but oskar still asks Mr. Black to help him with his quest and he does and finally gets him out of the house. I loved the chapter but one thing thing that i thought was weird was how easily oskar got him out of the house