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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Cormier, Robert
| "I Am the Cheese" opens with a boy riding his bike alone along a state route road. What is this boy's name? | A Cheesy Quiz Part One
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Adam. The novel opens with a first person narrative of a teen boy named Adam who has decided to visit his father.
To visit his father. Adam wants to visit his father who is staying in a hospital, a couple of towns away. He rides his father's old bike, wearing his father's old hat and coat.
his favorite stuffed animal. Adam brings along his childhood stuffed animal, Pokey, as a gift for his father.
clam chowder. Adam decides upon a bowl of clam chowder, and dislikes that the counter guy has placed a pat of butter into his soup. Adam is too polite to say anything about the butter.
| While eating at the cafe, the boy is interrupted by a bunch of locals looking for kicks. They decide to harass the boy. What is the leader's name? | A Cheesy Quiz Part One
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Whipper. Whipper is one of those bullies who is bored and finds targeting Adam to be a source of entertainment. He and his friends later run Adam off the road and although he is shaken, Adam is not seriously hurt.
his girlfriend. Adam continually tries to call his friend Amy. Either the phone keeps ringing or a stranger answers it saying Amy doesn't live at that address.
The Farmer in the Dell . Adam's last name is Farmer and so it was a family joke that "The Farmer in the Dell" was their own song. The book's title "I Am the Cheese" refers to the last line of the song, how the cheese stands alone. By the book's end Adam realizes he is the cheese, because he is all alone.
It has been closed down for years. Adam keeps coming up on mysteries on his trip, like being told Amy doesn't live at the number he keeps trying to reach, and lastly that the motel he and his parents stayed at not too long ago, has actually been closed down for years.
no. This is the most amazing twist in the novel. The bike trip has been mostly created through Adam's imagination. He is the actual patient in the hospital and the trip is riding his bike around on the hospital grounds. His family was part of the witness protection program and his mother has been killed by enemy agents. His father's whereabouts are unknown. And for the last three years Adam has been a patient at a private hospital where he has undergone questioning about his past, specifically about his father's knowledge in the case in which he testified.
Look for A Cheesy Quiz: Part Two, where more of the novel is explored.
Adam and Brint. This transcript is the first indication that the book is different in its construct. As the story unfolds and more of these transcripts appear, the reader begins to see there is a clear connection between the bike trip narrative and this second part--the taped transcripts. It is later that the reader discovers that "T" stands for Brint.
first person. The book starts out with a first person narrative of a teen boy who goes by the name of Adam. However, as the story unfolds there is more than just Adam's point of view of the story to process. There is a three-way narrative that moves the plot along--an unusual writing device when the book came out.
search for identity. While aspects of the other choices do occur in the story, Adam's bike journey primarily signifies Adam's search for his growing need to go from trusting child to savvy adolescent. His bike journey represents the teenager's need to pull away from the nurturing of the parent to the independence of becoming an adult.
| Amy represents Adam's touch with reality. However, the reader might begin to doubt if Amy exists, for what reason? | A Cheesy Quiz Part Two
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A man states there is no Amy that lives at the number dialed. At first Adam cannot reach Amy, and then as the story continues he does get someone on the line, but it seems like Adam has reached a wrong number. Finally, the man who answers gets annoyed saying he has had the number for three years and states no Amy has ever lived there that he knows of.
Paul. Adam discovers his real name is Paul Delmonte, not Adam Farmer. He learns his parents had been hiding the truth from him, yet the truth actually brought them closer together instead of distancing them.
he is greeted by a doctor, for he is a patient there. The ending is the beginning in many ways. Adam/Paul is actually a patient of this government run hospital, and all that is encountered on his bike journey is found on the hospital grounds. There is a blend of fantasy with reality mixed into the conclusion for Adam/Paul begins the narrative all over again.
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