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This speech addresses Cormier's childhood and adolescent reading and writing. It includes the introduction to his 20th Anniversary edition of I Am the Cheese and letters from objectors.

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This speech addresses Cormier's childhood and adolescent reading and writing. It includes the Introduction to his 20th Anniversary edition of I Am the Cheese and letters with objectors.

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Monseau considers student letters to Cormier's characters to argue that identifying with Cormier's characters helps students develop strength in their own identity.

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12 photographs of Leominster and Fitchburg locales featured in I Am the Cheese.

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Becky Mitchell and Andrea Babcock's letter and attached class poems, illustrations of book quotes, and reader's theatre script and props list inspired by I Am the Cheese.

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Cormier shares I Am the Cheese FAQ responses (written by Fitchburg State College students) with students interested in institutional victimization.

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Cormier responds to Art's concerns about the Salem censorship battle by describing the Panama City censorship of I Am the Cheese. The idea of protecting children through censorship and precautionary censorship makes up a large portion of the letter.

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Cormier describes how the source of fear is not in monsters on the screen or in books but those in our minds. He also describes a mother reading his novels along with her eighth-grade son.

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Cormier writes about how different emotional revelations drove him to write The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese, and Fade and how crucial emotion is to the success of his writing.

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Cormier shares brief feedback on Gloria's I Am the Cheese poem.

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Gloria introduces her poem to Cormier and shares her aspiration to be a professional writer. Included is a poem she wrote based on I Am the Cheese.

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Janet, a doctoral candidate, writes Cormier with a number of questions about I Am the Cheese. One question is about the reference to "The Farmer in the Dell." Janet also proposes several questions regarding potential plot holes in the Farmer family's…

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Cormier writes about his allusion to The Wizard of Oz in I Am the Cheese as well as the homosexual references in the novel.

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