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Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson

Who Moved My Cheese focuses on change. The story begins with the characters: Angela, Nathan, Carlos, and Jessica, and Michael who are old school friends who gather to reminisce about the different paths their lives have taken. The group all talks about how their lives have ended up completely unlike how they had expected. Michael offers his take on the theme of change and decides to share a story.
The story centers around two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two "little people", Hem and Haw. The author utilizes a play on words when selecting the names of the characters. There is significance to the names Hem and Haw which is shown later by the little people's whiney and complaining nature early …show more content…

They were comfortable, they even admitting to being afraid of what the other obstacles and hardships the rest of the unexplored parts of the maze would bring. Haw realized that what you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. "The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. He'd never been so afraid of never finding new cheese that he didn't even want to start looking." Taking that first step created a new outlook from Haw, "Since starting his journey, he had found enough cheese in the corridors to keep him going. Now he looked forward to finding more. Just looking ahead was becoming exciting." "Now he realized it was natural for change to continually occur, whether you expect it or not. Change could surprise you only if you didn't expect it and weren't looking for it." Furthermore, any new cheese that Haw found was even more satisfying by the fact that it was obtained by genuine hard work and ingenuity. Haw left a trail of crumbs for Hem to follow along with inspirational messages on the wall. At one point he even thought about going back to get Hem, but realized that he had already tried to convince Hem, it was up to Hem to discover for himself how to push himself past his comforts and fears.
The author, Spencer Johnson, uses the maze as a tool to convey the ways we handle change in our lives. Many times we face the same dead ends and long daunting

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