I am The Cheese Review
In the book I am the Cheese by, Robert Cormier, there are lots of twists in the plot. The main character, Adam Farmer a.k.a. “A” and Paul Delmonte, is a resident in a mental hospital. Throughout the story is woven an account of Adam Farmer’s bike trip to Rutterburg Vermont in search of his father. It appears that in this story Adam never leaves the grounds of the mental hospital. The journey takes place in his mind. As Adam starts his trip, he meets an old man at a gas station who calls Adam “Skipper” and “...has white hair and a face with so many red and blue veins that it resembles the road map in his hands...”(page 23). This old man helps Adam with directions. This is important because at the conclusion of the book, Adam is called “Skipper” by Mr. Harvester the old maintenance man on the grounds of the mental hospital. This old man never goes anywhere although he loves to read maps “...has red veins in his face that resemble the road maps he is always reading” (page 212). These “two” people are either identical twins or the same person who is just imagined to be some one else by Adam when he takes his imaginary journey to his father. I think that the gas station guy is also Mr. Harvester because they are describe
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Approximate Word count = 857
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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