In the story I Am the Cheese, Adam is discriminated against because of his personality from everyone around him. He is also portrayed to be very insecure about his identity. He takes caution when doing each particular task as if he is being watched. This leads him to become a very paranoid teenager throughout the series of flashbacks in the story. This leads to the creation of a few themes. The most important of the few would have to be discovering your true identity. The others would be that you can accomplish anything if you put your mind to it and that no matter what obstacles you face, you can reach yours goals. All of these were portrayed in the story. The story shows that if a young teenage protagonist can accomplish his goals and discover himself, then you can too.
In I Am the Cheese there was a variety of settings. Each setting has varying actions that had taken place. In the flashbacks the main setting was the Farmer’s home. This is where the meetings with the well-dressed Mr. Thompson took place. This created a suspicious feeling for Adam which led to one of the first conflicts along the line of his flashbacks. The main setting of the whole story was on the mysterious long road across the state. Many events created conflict along his journey. First, he ran into some troublemakers at an old diner. Then, he was thrown off of his bike by the same mischievous teens. Last but not least, he had his beloved bicycle stole by a thief. All of the events young Adam had dealt with lead him to believe that that no matter what obstacles you face, you can reach yours goals.
Adam is very insecure about who he is. One day when his father was completing yard work, he decided he was going to look through his father’s desk. That was when he made the discovery of a lifetime. He had two birth certificates. Each was his own birth certificates. This led him to great confusion and one major conflict, confronting his parents. After being tracked down