![]() ![]() Grey - agent in the Witness Protection Program ![]() Brint - Adam's questioner and "guide" as his psychotherapist.Amy Hertz - Adam's friend and love interest.He pretends to work for an insurance company. David Farmer (Anthony Delmonte) - Adam's father, a former newspaper man.Adam Farmer (Paul Delmonte) – teenage protagonist.At the end of the last tape, Brint recommends authorization to murder Adam. Each time, Paul is unable to handle his realization of his past and embarks on his delusional bike ride across the ground of the facility. The last chapter implies that WPP agents killed the family and reveals that Paul is regularly interrogated on the topic. Adam/Paul survives and is taken to a government mental asylum. The family moved to Monument and escaped several close calls with their identities, but the parents are killed in the penultimate chapter in a car collision. His father, "David Farmer", was a newspaper reporter who was enrolled in the Witness Protection Program (WPP). ![]() ![]() The subject receives psychotherapy and is interrogated by Brint.Īs the book continues, it is revealed that Adam is the subject, formerly Paul Delmonte of a small New York town. The story alternates with transcripts of tapes between a "subject" and Brint. The novel opens with protagonist Adam Farmer biking from his home in the fictional town of Monument, Massachusetts, (based on Cormier's hometown of Leominster, Massachusetts ) to visit his father in the fictional town of Rutterburg, Vermont. I Am the Cheese is a young adult novel by the American writer Robert Cormier, published in 1977. ![]()
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