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Understanding Great Literature - I Am the Cheese

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Considering the unusual complexity of I Am the Cheese for a young adult novel, Jennifer Keely has written a surprisingly shallow analysis/history. The book is written at a reading level closer to the younger end of the book's readers, which is fine, but she fails to give much insight into the novel beyond quoting numerous newspaper reviews (some of which are obviously, in hindsight, ridiculous) and she leaves out much of the controversy that The Chocolate War has stirred up over the years (one of the most frequently banned books in schools), although she mentions that book quite a lot. There is also scant mention of the major motion picture adapted from I Am the Cheese, which might be a useful research/teaching tool for young readers. Unless you're writing a paper for an English class, Understanding I Am the Cheese is worth flipping through at your public library, but not worth purchasing.

The book was ok but it was confusing.I liked the book because bikes interest me.After you get into the book it starts to make sense.