An Analysis Of Robert Cormier's I Am The Cheese

In the essay written by Joey Franklin, the author exposes his own internal conflict, as well as the existing prejudice against fast food restaurant workers. The work is well developed, with the use of witty diction and tone, in addition to the appeals to rhetorical devices.

In the novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, the characters are over exaggerated, to state a clear point that this is not a normal story. The story does not follow a regular story line, but one that Robert Cormier decides is fit in his mind and he over exaggerates it aswell for an effect to state his point that, not every time you disturb the universe something good comes out.

In the text, “The Moustache” by Robert Cormier, a young man is visiting his grandmother. She is seventy three years old and is staying in the Lawnrest Nursing home. Mike, her seventeen year old grandson is visiting her. He has recently grown a moustache, but not everyone likes it. Often in life people feel overly confident about themselves or their ego, but through support from others gain a new perspective.

Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller explores the trials of supposed heretic Domenico Scandella. Better known as Menocchio, The Cheese and the Worms details his extensive beliefs about mistruths in religion and is written as a micro history of the events of his trial. At a time when religion and God were thought of as pure fact, Menocchio doubted their supreme existence and this lead to his death by burning. When reviewing Ginzburg’s account of the trials, the sources of his many ideas come to light and these ideas show that the Catholic Church and its members were scared the most by Menocchio’s ideas about the origins of earth.

The 16th century was a time of creativity, discovery, exploration, and invention. The Cheese and the Worms, written by Carlo Ginzburg, tells the story of Domenico Scandella. The book explores Scandella’s, otherwise known as Menocchio, world-view at the time. Menocchio was a miller who was tried for his unorthodox religious views and eventually burnt at the stake for heresy in 1599. During this time, Menocchio was seen as special as he was a peasant who could read, a peasant who had an education. Ginsburg’s display of Menocchio’s views gives the reader an insight into peasant culture. The peasant culture experienced many grievances as they suffered in their daily lives with little opportunity for survival. Their only opportunity of survival was working for landlords on the land. Peasants had little to no money and it did not help that they were being controlled by the church. The people were unaware that history was occurring but the Protestant Reformation, the Renaissance, the Inquisition, and other historical moments during the time were all relevant to the typical European peasant Menocchio as most of his ideas were caught in the currents of the 16th century.

I am alone. But I wanted to come back to warn you. Only no one is listening to me... "(pg 7) Trust is first developed in the story of Night when Moishe the Beadle, a foreigner, was expelled from Sighet. He began telling Elizer and all the Jews that he came across, the story of how he was forced to dig large trenches and then one by one they are shot.

Readers have to look at characters and their actions in order to reach the true heart of

You shouldn’t trust everyone. This is shown in “Young Goodman Brown” by Washington Irving, and “ The Devil and Tom Walker”by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This idea is developed through the characterization, plot and setting. People should not always trust everyone they are around because they sometimes cannot be trustworthy.

Trust is one of many components of life and it is shown through our actions and how we carry ourselves. We as human beings learn to trust each other by the words we say to one another and the actions we show to others. There are many lessons we can learn through the short but powerful story by Langston Hughes “Thank You. Ma’am”. Throughout the story there are several lessons and traits that the reader can interpret such as thinking twice before you execute the plan that you had in mind, sympathy, charisma, and even giving second chances. But more importantly, there is one lesson that specifically plays a huge role in the story itself and in American culture today, and that is trust others. There are several ways these lessons and interpretations can be put into real life situations and how they can affect us today in real time.

I agree with what Graham Greene stated. In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys are stranded on an island where they unite but shortly separate. Trust is key when stranded and one of the boys, Jack, had no trust and felt he had to take matters in his own hands. Jack betrayed Ralph, the original leader, by separating the group and turning them against each other. Jack also mislead the others boys into illusions of food and relaxation because the boys were starving and fighting with one another but he could not fulfill any of his promises. He said these promises to gain trust. Jack did not trust Ralph's leadership so he decided to form his own group even though his own leadership was an untrustworthy. This action caused many problems and mistrust between all the boys. This lead Jack's group to attack Ralph's for Piggy's glasses to make fire. With no trust between the groups it causes chaotic events like this occurrence. This proves the statement, ".....It is impossible to go through life without trust" to be true because life without trust causes problems and enemies which leads to more mistrust.

To some dogs are loyal companions, trusting friends and loving family members with an extra tail or two. To others, dogs are bloody sacrifices to deities or even a tasty part of tonight’s meal. Regardless of the practice and culture, love or lack thereof, dogs have been and will continue to play an integral part in humanity. Although revolting and macabre to many dog lovers and Western audiences alike, Johnathon Safran Foer’s “Let Them Eat Dog: A Modest Proposal for Throwing Fido in the Oven” argues and suggests that eating dogs is perfectly justifiable as is eating beef, chicken and pork. In Foer’s work, the instinctive idea that dogs are solely “man’s best friend” is reevaluated and reexamined to include “potentially poaching the

In an interview, Duff Brennan said something along the lines of "All literature shows us the power of emotion. It is emotion, not reason, that motivates characters in literature." Duff Brennan is communicating that a story is constructed and carried out by the emotions of the characters. In real life, we're ordinarily guided by reason. Most people usually have to stop and contemplate about how doing something will affect them, they don't just act based on how they're feeling. Individuals typically do what is fair, not let their emotions take control of them and drive them to make regretable decisions. In literature, the characters follow their hearts, despite their consciousness trying to reason with them. Even when the characters are not following their hearts, they are ruled by emotions. In most books, characters don't instantly follow their hearts so that the book becomes one where the character is internally struggling over reason and their emotions. Books have to be this way to keep the readers interested. Otherwise, it would just be a book about people going about their normal life, doing what they should do, what's right to do, not what they want to do. 1984 by George Orwell and The Fault in Our Stars by John Green both support this quote and show how this quote is valid.

Sometimes they can be blinded by this goal, and are often misled about the reasons behind their actions, as we can see in Edmond Dantès in the Count of Monte Cristo. Dantès’ ultimate goal is to get revenge, and realizes that he was, in fact, misled, which he comes to terms with in the end of the novel. What makes complex heroes so complex is that because they get misled they can’t be determined as the “good guy”, but they’re still trying to do what they think is right, which makes it difficult to call them the “bad

Last but not least, I Am The Cheese overly uses the use of extremes throughout the entire  novel. Such as, the use of extremes comes into play when finding out most of the book turns out to be a lie, and just a dream to cope with Adams depressing past. Meaning, most of the book is just Adam's imagination, and he refers to himself as the cheese. Thus, confirming to schmoop, “Adam is saying that he knows he is alone. Without parents, friends, or anyone who truly cares for him, he is by himself in the world, even in the world of his imagination” (1).  Therefore, the use of extremes is definitely expressed in this instance, due to how drastic things come to in the book. Furthermore, Cormier makes the book have a dramatic change when his parents,

"Who Moved My Cheese?" tells a story of change, of how we react to it, and the trouble we can find ourselves in when we don't follow that change. The story is about four characters, two mice, and two "little people." The characters live in a maze chasing cheese. The cheese represents anything we chase after in life and believe it will make us happy. The story details the trials and troubles we all have in daily lives.