Summary Of I Am The Cheese
“I turn away, and beat at the cabin door asking them to let me in, to please let me in…
The darkness gathers me” - Adam Farmer
I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier has a very captivating plotline, intriguing characters and will keep you on the edge of your seat. The chapters alternate between the main character, Adam Farmer and his narration of his journey to Vermont to find his father, and a recorded tape series between two characters revealed throughout the story. Cormier kept the book interesting with these two perspectives, revealing more information about the characters between each switch of the chapters. It is a very interesting writing style that I enjoyed and the author executes it nicely. The book was easy to read, nothing confusing left unsolved, for …show more content…
Adam rode his bike through the states to find his father and deliver his gift to him.
The central story follows Adam on his ride to his father, He starts in the early morning in Monument and over the course of a few days finally makes his way to Vermont, with many stops in between. The tape recordings are also very, very important in the plot, a recorded tape series between a patient and a doctor, recovering blank memories of the patient. Without giving away too much, many memories are recovered, leading up to a devastating twist in the plotline.
I haven't read many books written in the way Cormier wrote this one, and I believe it was very well written. It is extremely unique, no other books come to mind when I think of one like this. You get the experience of being in Adam’s mind through his trek to Vermont, we get his true emotion of the situation from his thoughts. We also get a sort of professional point of view from the recorded tapes, as if we, as the reader, are analyzing the recorded tapes to get information from the patient and to help them recover the blacked out
The darkness gathers me” - Adam Farmer
I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier has a very captivating plotline, intriguing characters and will keep you on the edge of your seat. The chapters alternate between the main character, Adam Farmer and his narration of his journey to Vermont to find his father, and a recorded tape series between two characters revealed throughout the story. Cormier kept the book interesting with these two perspectives, revealing more information about the characters between each switch of the chapters. It is a very interesting writing style that I enjoyed and the author executes it nicely. The book was easy to read, nothing confusing left unsolved, for …show more content…
Adam rode his bike through the states to find his father and deliver his gift to him.
The central story follows Adam on his ride to his father, He starts in the early morning in Monument and over the course of a few days finally makes his way to Vermont, with many stops in between. The tape recordings are also very, very important in the plot, a recorded tape series between a patient and a doctor, recovering blank memories of the patient. Without giving away too much, many memories are recovered, leading up to a devastating twist in the plotline.
I haven't read many books written in the way Cormier wrote this one, and I believe it was very well written. It is extremely unique, no other books come to mind when I think of one like this. You get the experience of being in Adam’s mind through his trek to Vermont, we get his true emotion of the situation from his thoughts. We also get a sort of professional point of view from the recorded tapes, as if we, as the reader, are analyzing the recorded tapes to get information from the patient and to help them recover the blacked out