I+Am+the+Cheese+Essay

//I Am The Cheese Essay~ REader Response.// What issues has IAmTheCheese made you think about more strongly about? 1) Why- topic 2) Text to self-whatifs/neverknows 3) Text to text-house 4) Text to world-R.I.D 5) Conclusion- restate why...

Sloppy Copy~ ~*~Sometimes when you have read a book and are finished with it, you go right to another book. What if something in the book made you think more stongly about it? In //I Am The Cheese//, Adam Farmer,who is really Paul DeMonte, is going on a journey to see his father, but on the way he meets some people. His parents once told him to not trust anyone anymore because you can never be too sure who they are. His mother also starts talking about the 'Never-Knows' and the 'What-Ifs'. The 'Never Knows' are regular people that can be coming your way and you would never know if they have a weopon with them, or if they are about to do something unexpected. The 'What If's are when you think what if this happens, what if that happened This reminds me of when I was younger, and makes me think that everyone to everyone else is a 'Never Know', and you can always be thinking about the 'What-If's.'

~*~ When I was younger, I remember always thinking about the random people walking along on the street. I would say to myself 'How do I know they aren't just going to attack someone right on the spot?' It would always be scary when I was younger and had to go to my busstop. My busstop is a little way down the road from my house, and I would walk down there by myself and one of my parents would watch me from the top of the hill. I can remember thinking about the people driving by the end of the street. Some random car can just slow down, and someone can come out and grab me and my parents wouldn't have the chance to help me. As I got older, I knew that no one was going to do that because my mom had been telling out neighbor at the end of the street to watch me since her house is my busstop. I never knew they were watching over me, but it would have been good to know when I was younger so I wasn't always worrying. Still, my neighbors watched over me for a few years, and then came the "What-If's" What if one day they decided to take me into their house and kill me? What if they decided to kidnap me and take me far away? I knew they would never do something like that, but still the "What-If's" questioned me, just like they questioned Adam.

~*~ During this story, Adam is imagining all these things happening to him, but he is really going on a bike ride around the building. On the bike ride he is hallucinating all these things about the people inside the (?)Mental Hospital(?) I can connect this to a TV Show called House. During one of the seasons, Dr.House hallucinates throughout the whole season, imagining things about all the other doctors and the patients. This is what Adam is doing throughout the whole book, but we don't realize it until the end of the book. Another text-to-text connection is about House also. When Adam is talking about having a migrane, he mentions it feels like he has a giant tumor in his head above his eye. As soon as I read that part, I thought of House. On one episode, a teen had a huge tumor above/on his eye in his head. They called him 'Elephant Man' and I can remember calling Adam 'The Elephant Man'.

~*~All around the world, a lot of people are under the Witness Protection Program, or Re-identification Department. Paul DeMonte and his whole family are one of those people because Paul's dad had to testify agaisnt people trying to currupt the government.Since the people he was testifying against would not like this at all, they had to change all their names, or else their family would get killed. The Witness Protection Program helps people all around the world in situations just like the DeMontes. If they happen to see something a crime or some sort of illegal thing happen and have to testify against the criminals, they go under the Witness Protection Program, change their names, move, and hope to stay safe from the criminals who might go looking for them. I think this is a very helpful program for people who really need the help. I am glad I have chosen this for a connection because people should know about Re-identification so they can stay safe.