Trust In David Cormier's I Am The Cheese

Building a trustworthy foundation takes a lot of time and effort to make it work. Training might even be necessary to build the trust. In the story I am the Cheese Adam has trouble figuring out who he can trust, and who could be someone that would threaten his life if he told them to much. Adam runs into this problem a few times throughout the story. Most of the time he is thinking weather it is fine to tell the person information or not. Adam makes sure to be very cautious on the things that he says, not trying to tell information that he was told to be kept a secret. One of the most difficult things in life is learning whom one should trust; there are many people out there that might be be trustworthy and one can trust, but one can learn who to really trust through the hardships and troubling times of life. In the big world there are lots of people who have intentions of harm to one. Adam knew who he could trust, and stuck to trusting those people and only those people. “I want to leave. I am getting nervous. I feel bad about his son, but I don’t want to talk to him anymore. I’m afraid that he’ll start asking about my father,” (Cormier 25). Adam made sure he did not confront people he did not know for very long. When Adam met the old man that

Adam always proceeded with everything that he did with caution just to be on the safe side of things. “The door to the recreation room was closed. Adam walked stealthily toward the door, almost on tiptoe. He placed his ear against it listening shamelessly,” (Cormier 121). Adam knew that he was doing wrong eavesdropping, but he wanted to figure out the secrets that went on through his home that he did not know about. Once he figured out what was going on and his parents told him everything, he felt more comfortable and knew that he could trust his parents that they were telling the