Schooled discussion

I just started reading this book and am only on page 7. I already know a bite about cap and the way the author builds him up. The book starts out right away with his grandmother/home-school teacher dying. This is a conflict for Cap and we learn somethings about him when he is getting help for his grandmother and they ask him questions. We learn his age, how he is homeschooled, how he is a hippie and in what time he lives in.