The mystery surrounding I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier is the question, who is Adam Farmer? Published in 1970, this book is narrated by two different perspectives, but both by the main character, Adam Farmer. The first perspective is Adam going to a journey to visit his father in a hospital in Vermont. The second perspective is Adam with what seems like an investigator/ psychiatrist, Brint, but Cormier never specifically says who he is. Half of the story tells of Adam who is planning an adventure to Vermont from Monument, Massachusetts to visit his father. He is travelling by bike with a present for his father in the bicycle basket. On his travel his encounters a man who looks like a map, because his arms and face are filled with veins, …show more content…
a trio of bullies, a cook, a fat man who sits in the balcony and stares at people, and the bicycle stealer. Throughout he argues with himself that he should have taken his pills or he was happy he didn’t take them. The other half of the story tells of Adam in a room with Brint, the supposed investigator/ psychiatrist. Here it seems Adam doesn’t remember himself and his family. All he knows is that something horrible happened to him and Brint is trying to help him remember. Each chapter they discover a new piece to his lost life. At first I didn’t understand how these two very different until the very last chapter where everything becomes clear. The mystery is finding out who Adam was?
In the story Adam finds out from his father that Adam is not his real name and that they are all living a lie. Adam’s father used to be a reporter in New York and he discovered information that can get him and his family killed. So Mr. Grey, the family’s protector, gave Adam’s family all new names, occupation, and lives. All this happened when Adam was three years old. Then one day Mr. Grey contacted his father saying that his family was being targeted and advised him to get away for a couple of days until it was over. They decided to go up North to Vermont. They were riding in the car the whole family singing the Father in the Dell. Then they stopped to see the beautiful view of the mountains. Then all of a sudden they hear a car coming at them and hits all three of them. Adam is still conscious when he hits the floor and all he sees next to him is his mom. His mother’s limb’s are sticking out unnaturally and all he sees are his mother’s glassy eyes staring at him, lifeless. He is losing consciousness, but he sees a blur of gray and hears someone say that his father was gone and that they need to find him fast. Adam is telling all this to Brint and he sings the last part of the Father in the Dell song to …show more content…
Brint, “The rat takes the cheese The rat takes the cheese Hi-ho,The derry-o The rat takes the cheese The cheese stands alone The cheese stands alone Hi-ho,The derry-o The cheese stands alone.” Adam then tells him that he is the cheese.
Then the chapter ends with an analysis of Adam’s condition. The final chapter then is exactly like the first starting out with his bicycle journey. The bicycle journey was not an actual memory of Adam. It is his life in the mental institution. The man with the map face is the janitor, the trio bullies are his mean roommates, the bicycle stealer is just a patient that always wants to ride his bicycle. His destination is the hospital in Vermont, but it is not to visit his father, but to revisit his once lost memories. He tells Brint he is the cheese because he is all alone. His father is gone, his mother is gone, his best friend is gone, his life is gone. He is the only one left. Brint’s analysis says that this has been Brint’s third time hearing the same story and never getting a good description of the killer. So by this, it means that Adam is in a repeating cycle of forgetting and remembering. Never going forward with his life, stuck in the same place for the rest of his
life. The two sides of the story piece together perfectly in the end. Even in the end there are still question unanswered, for example what happened to him after the accident? How did they find his father? I believe the story is trying to tell you that finding yourself is not an easy task. It takes time and patience to know yourself. For poor Adam he is stuck in the same place for the rest of his life.Never going to move forward with his life.
The main character and narrator Andrea, who goes by the nickname Andy for the majority of the story, is a nine year old girl. She’s fighting an internal battle of figuring out her place in the world. In the beginning, she feels comfortable around her father, who plays an important role and defends her place in the presence on the hunting trip. Charlie Spoon and his son Mac were also characters on the hunting trip, and they play a supportive role and constantly questioned the appropriateness of a young girl on a hunting trip with men. Although her mom didn’t play an important active role in the story, she was a very important
It rained really hard and there was lots of thunder and lightning. The cattle were running scared all over. After the storm, Titus discovered his brother (Micah) stuck under a wagon, dieing. He finally was able to pull his brother out with the help of his horse. Titus buried his brother and said some good words about him before he returned back to the other ranchers. He then pulled the ranchers together. Then, when they were really close to the Homestead Meat Company where they would sell the cattle, they ran into cowdiggers which were going to steal some of their cattle. Then gunfire takes place, the cowdiggers leave, but Titus got shot. Wounded he still pushes on. They finally make it and return home with 200 dollars. When Titus returns home, his father finally accepts him as his son. This is about the whole story summed up into one paragraph. In this speech I will be doing the interview as the main character
Finally the chapter will revert back to the present time of the story and will tell the tale of the herd’s journeys. This predictable writing style is actually making the book easy to understand. It is like the reader is being involved in the writing of the book, which gives the reader a better feel for the underlined/hidden messages of the
In conclusion, Adam experience prepared him for real life. He was able to learn from things he couldn't quite understand from the beginning of the story. He learned new techniques of ways of how to earn money and have a better of living for himself. He had to understand the true meaning of change. He started out with nothing to end up with something at the end. It really helped Adam to grow and understand things much better from
Christopher John Francis Boone is the main character in the story. His father, mother, Mr. Shears,
The character David Farmer, father of the novel¡¦s protagonist, plays the victim of the society in ¡§I am the cheese.¡¨ Through testifying to the truth, he and his family have had their freedom lacerated, and ultimately, have suffered the penalty of death. David Farmer began the case with the belief that ¡§he would be protected, his identity kept secret.¡¨ Although aware of the perilous circumstances and the hazards, his determination to act patriotically prevailed. His powerful motive for his precarious action was that ¡§he was an old-fashioned citizen who believed in doing the right thing for his country, to provide as much information as possible.¡¨ David Farmer was under no obligation to disclose his researched information, and yet chose to take the risk. Clearly, this is an example of an individual standing up to himself, acting accordingly to his own beliefs and values. Nevertheless, David Farmer and his family were punished lethally. Even the interim between the testimony and his death was a metaphor for a cage, an insecure prison bound for the Never Knows, and yet was always destined for death. The example of the bomb that was planted to detonate the entire family and the ¡§undercover policeman¡¨ whose supposed job was to protect heralded an unending chain of misery.
The book, Slaughter House-Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut, is based on the main character named Billy Pilgrim who is a little "lost" in the head. Billy is always traveling to different parts of his life and rarely in the present state. Throughout the book Billy mainly travels back and forth to three big times in his life. In each different time period of Billy's life he is in a different place; his present state is in a town called Illium and his "travels" are to Dresden and Tralfamadore. When Billy is in Illium he is suppose to have a "normal" life; he is married, has two children, and works as an optometrist. Then Billy travels back to Dresden where he was stationed in the last years of WWII and witnessed the horrible bombing. When Billy travels to Tralfamadore he is in an "imaginary" state, everything that happens to him is more like a dream. Through Billy's travels in time he shows that he is striving to find meaning in the events that happened in his life that he is afraid to acknowledge. As Billy says himself, "All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist," (1) this just proves even further that fact that Billy cannot ever forget any event in his life.
he learns of the lies and deceit of his father, as he discovers his mother never died of a heart attack and his father
The story begins in a small town in America. The Fowler family is faced with the burden, frustration and pain of having to bury their twenty-one year old son, Frank. The inward struggle faced by Matt Fowler, his wife, and family drives him to murder Richard Strout, Frank's killer, in order to avenge his son's murder and bring peace to himself and his family. Matt faced a life-time struggle to be a good father and protect his children from danger throughout their childhood. Dubus describes Matt's inner ...
In conclusion, this was an awesome story. The above questions were the catalyst to the real truth that would make the brother to that little girl free at last. His son was determined to break the cycle and remedy this generational condition, although the means by which he used were terrible. But, he would get through to his father. He shed light in the dark place by first beating his father into sobriety, so that he could think clearly. He then helped his father to open up to the discussion concerning the secret he had held on to for so long. Then, he also convinced his father to burn the “Shawl” of his deceased sister. And finally, his father realized what the true story was. A story that would in turn loose the tie that bound them all together with generational sorrows.
father's death. He is forced to act insane in order to find out the truth
During the story his father tries to remember the moments he lived in the eighties; but nothing came to mind. It was like if he was never born. He knew nothing, everything was
Roth uses a series of flashbacks in order to convey a sense of chaos. Flashbacks are set within flashbacks and "the central plot- what happens to the Swede [and his family]- is set among smaller... subplots or partial plots- [what happens to the Swede's brother, their parents, and the narrator]" (). The novel begins at a 45th high school reunion attended by the narrator, Nathan Zuckerman. At this reunion in 1995, Zuckerman meets one of his old classmates Jerry Levov, who tells him about his recently deceased older brother Swede Levov. Jerry informs Zuckerman about the Swede's traumatic life after his daughter's involvement in the Vietnam anti war movement and the rest of the novel is compiled of Zuckerman's posthumous recreation of the Swede's life. As Zuckerman gets into the Swede's story, it appears as if everything is from the point of view of the Swede, whether it's reading about his thoughts as he watches an action, his emotions as he recounts an event or his tortured mind as he flashes back and re lives an event. These flashbacks and transitions from the reunion to the scenes in the Swede's life to the Swedes t...
Shortly after giving up his power, the father realizes that he is nothing without it and appears to be slowly becoming insane. In both instances, the father, in a crazed moment, wanders off and puts himself in a life-threatening situation. In the end the youngest daughter comes to the fathers' rescue.