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    Ready Reference Treatise: I Am the Cheese
    Ready Reference Treatise: I Am the Cheese
    Ready Reference Treatise: I Am the Cheese
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    Ready Reference Treatise: I Am the Cheese

    By Raja Sharma

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    “I Am the Cheese” by Robert Cormier was first published in 1977. The title of the book has been taken from a song that the protagonist sings during the book. He keeps singing several songs with the word ‘cheese’ in them throughout the story.

    Adam Farmer, the protagonist of the novel, happens to be riding his bike from his home in the fictional town of Monument, Massachusetts. He is going to Rutterburg to see his father in the hospital. During his journey he remembers his former life with his parents. He eventually discovers that he is not what he appears to be.

    Ready Reference Treatise: I Am the Cheese
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Major Characters
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateOct 4, 2015
    ISBN9781311871275
    Ready Reference Treatise: I Am the Cheese
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise: I Am the Cheese

      Copyright

      Ready Reference Treatise: I Am the Cheese

      Raja Sharma

      Copyright@2015 Raja Sharma

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier was first published in 1977. The title of the book has been taken from a song that the protagonist sings during the book. He keeps singing several songs with the word ‘cheese’ in them throughout the story.

      Adam Farmer, the protagonist of the novel, happens to be riding his bike from his home in the fictional town of Monument, Massachusetts. He is going to Rutterburg to see his father in the hospital. During his journey he remembers his former life with his parents. He eventually discovers that he is not what he appears to be.

      The songs that he sings have several characters. The protagonist believes that he is the cheese and very much alone in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing. He lives in a hospital. He believes that no one wants him anymore. It is possible that the title I Am the Cheese represents Adam’s feelings of entrapment. He is used as the bait to lure his parents to their murders.

      It transpires that his parents happen to have adopted a new name Farmer. Adam’s father had taught him the song about the cheeses probably to reinforce their new name.

      I Am the Cheese was a successful novel and it was named to five annual book lists according to the publisher description of the 20th anniversary edition of the novel. The book was the winner of the Phoenix Award in the year 1997.

      The book was adapted into a highly successful movie in the year 1983. The screenplay of the movie was written by Robert Jiras.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      Adam Farmer is the central character and the narrator of the novel. As the novel opens, he happens to be riding his bicycle from Monument, Massachusetts, to visit his father in Rutterburg, Vermont. He is carrying a packet for his father.

      The first series of the undated taped transcripts have the conversations between Adam Farmer and a doctor named Brint. The doctor tells Adam to remember his earliest memories.

      Adam begins to describe in a third person narration. He describes taking a long and tiring bus trip with his mother and father in the middle of the night. After the bus right, the family ends up in a different house. Everything in that house is different.

      While he is riding his bicycle to Rutterburg, an old man at a gas station gives him the directions to his destination. Adam informs the old man that he will be staying at a motel in Belton Falls where he had once stayed with his family. He lies to the old man that he is visiting his father in a hospital.

      During their conversation, Brint mentions a person named Paul Delmonte. Adam does not know that person. While pedaling along the road, he keeps singing the song ‘The Farmer in the Dell." It transpires that it was the family’s theme song.

      At the bottom of a hill he confronts a ferocious German shepherd. However, he increases the speed of his bicycle and rushes past the shepherd.

      Brint, the doctor, asks Adam about the mysterious clues he had mentioned in their previous dialogue. Adam tells Brint that the dog may be a clue. Adam remembers that he was walking to the library with his father when he was nine years old. Suddenly,

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