History Headscratchers / ChristmasWithTheKranks

** In the book, the previous year a Pakistani(?) couple (assumed to be non-Christian) had lived in one of the street's houses for about three months (including Chrismas) and didn't have a snowman on their roof. When the book mentioned the neighborhood association's discussions as to whether or not they should buy another Frosty to decorate the empty house under cover of night, any mention of their house was conspicuously absent.

*** Plus it is implied that the cruise was Luther's idea to go on a cruise with his solution to him and his wife suffering from Empty Nest Syndrome. It was selfishness that motivated him, it was ''therapy''. When you think about it, it just makes his neighbors look ''even worse''.

** At least within their neighborhood, where Christmas seemed to be a big community thing, I think the problem other people in the neighborhood had was that the Kranks had taken part in this tradition for years and then were suddenly backing out of it now. No idea about the rest of the town, though.

** They may have not wanted to have to go through the effort of putting stuff up. Just unraveling lights alone takes some work let alone everything else, and they're not even going to be there to enjoy it. Of course, if the neighbors are really that obsessed with it they probably could of told them to do it.

* Considering the front page news they made and the crook who attempted to steal things, what would have happened if Luther and Nora still went on their cruise? Their home would have been a huge target for any thief, and Luther could sue the newspaper and the neighbors for damages.

* When Nora goes to buy hickory honey ham for Blair but the plastic bag breaks in the parking lot, Nora goes after the ham to no avail and it's squashed by a truck when it ends up on the highway. However, at one point, when the ham rolled under a van, Nora wasted time bending down and watching it roll further away from her. If she knew that the ham was still rolling towards the highway, why didn't she instead dodge around the van? She could have had a chance to reach the hickory honey ham.
* When the neighbourhood police arrest the crook who tried to rob the Krank residence, why doesn't the thief tell them that Spike was the one who freed him to ensure that Spike gets in trouble as well? The police knew that the crook was handcuffed in the car, but they don't seem to question how he "magically" vanished from the car and appeared from out of nowhere on the house's roof. Shouldn't the thief want to get back at Spike for alerting the police after he tricked him into letting him into the party?

** At least in the book, Grisham (the author) seemed to think of Blair as a CanonSue, if a mild one, and (among other, slightly more subtle clues to his position) pointed out at the beginning of one chapter that she wondered if she was being inconvenient by flying home with no notice whatsoever before reaching the States but immediately brushed it off.

*** It's too bad he wasn't {{Mayinatec}} and had always celebrated the Rebirth of the Sun or some other really nonChristian holiday. Under Hollywood Logic, that would still exist, if obscurely.