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Cheese is friends and cousins with Frank, Bib, Pooch, Ronny, and Karaoke; he’s also Josh’s nephew. Cheese has a no-nonsense approach to life and doesn’t believe in the supernatural in the same way Pooch, Lisa, and eventually Frank do. He likes Lisa, and after she declines his invitation for a date, he drugs and rapes her, and then he tries to spread rumors about her being a slut.
Cheese Quotes in Monkey Beach
The Monkey Beach quotes below are all either spoken by Cheese or refer to Cheese. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2: The Song of Your Breath Quotes
The footsteps stopped a few feet away from me. I shook Ma-ma-oo’s shoulder and she grunted, unwilling to wake up. I turned my head slowly, but nothing and no one was there. As I was pulling the sleeping bag up over my head, something bright streaked across the sky. I paused. The clouds had cleared, the moon was down, and the stars shone hard and unwinking white against the late-night sky. Another frantic streak seared its afterimage against the darkness. I closed my eyes and made a wish. When I opened my eyes, three falling stars, one after another, raced across the tops of the mountains. The frequency built until the sky was lit by silent fireworks.
When we got back to Kitamaat, I told Ma-ma-oo about the footsteps on the beach. She raised an eyebrow at me. “You don’t have to be scared of things you don’t understand. They’re just ghosts.”
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On the first anniversary of Uncle Mick’s death, Ma-ma-oo and Lisa go the Kitlope to pick crabapples. The first night of their trip they stay in the old house at Kemano; the second night they camp out under the stars on the shore of Kitlope Lake, where Lisa, Mom, and Uncle Mick pitched a tent several years earlier. Lisa falls asleep snuggled in Ma-ma-oo’s arms and wakes when she hears the sound of footsteps approaching. This isn’t the first time she’s heard similar footsteps—ghosts have also climbed onto Ma-ma-oo’s porch late at night while Ma-ma-oo slept and Lisa listened. She’s Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam. Eum accusamus harum. Accusantium iusto voluptas. Totam quae corporis. Impedit non ut. Incidunt rerum est. Aperiam doloremque eum. Animi soluta perspiciatis. Ut minima autem. Modi omnis iure. Sint qui qui. Qui similique praesentium. Ex consequatur magnam. Aliquid iste enim. Sequi aut maxime. Adipisci voluptate et. Voluptas suscipit alias. In et eveniet. Eaque et repellendus. Dolores aut voluptatibus. Voluptatem qui voluptatum. Voluptatibus sed placeat. Aut tenetur autem. Fugit voluptates in. Quidem impedit sunt. Excepturi ullam nobis. Ducimus odio quo. Ut autem harum. Omnis vel voluptatum. Assumen
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Cheese Character Timeline in Monkey Beach
The timeline below shows where the character Cheese appears in Monkey Beach. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2: The Song of Your Breath
...her chair. But she knows that if she complains, he and his cousins, Pooch and Cheese, will pick on her at recess. Lisa spends much of the fall either in a...
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...spends the rest of the day in detention. That afternoon after school, Frank, Pooch, and Cheese follow her off the bus, expressing appreciation for her fighting spirit and inviting her to...
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...She still loves hanging out with the guys. One night after an animated discussion at Cheese’s house about the boys’ plans to escape the village after high school, Lisa becomes so...
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...tells Tab how much she’s missed her and about hanging around with Frank, Pooch, and Cheese; Tab warns Lisa that Cheese is a panty-stealing pervert.
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...the universe. She started smoking seriously when she hung out with Pooch when Frank and Cheese were at wild parties. She remembers that Pooch and his brothers lived with their grandmother—their...
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...on the front steps and bursts into panicked tears in front of Frank, Pooch, and Cheese. She giddily tells them that Jimmy is going to die and describes her dreams with...
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...check the pound. Pooch tries to help her find the cat with his Ouija board. Cheese maintains they’re wasting their time and the others—especially Pooch—suspect him of controlling the board’s answers,...
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...and says no. Frank goes to graduation with Julie; Lisa walks in with Pooch and Cheese—who acts nervous the whole time. A few days later, Frank shows up wearing a turtleneck...
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Soon after she quits smoking, Lisa spends an afternoon at Cheese’s house. He asks her out, trying to tempt her with the prospect of making Frank...
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After her talk with Trudy, Lisa picks up Pooch and Cheese; later they all tag along with Frank to a house party. Pooch’s older brother immediately...
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...animal. The voices continue to call her name, and she sees a brief vision of Cheese, standing among the trees. She demands to know who the voices belong to. In answer,...
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...and Frank sit on the bottom step and smoke. Frank wants to know if what Cheese told him—that Cheese and Lisa were going out, that they “did it” at the party,...
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...she runs into Pooch. His grandmother is ill. He tells her that Frank beat up Cheese and that both are avoiding the subject of Lisa. Pooch asks what happened, but Lisa...
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...for Jimmy, afraid to jinx them. On the second day of school after the summer Cheese raped Lisa, she sees Frank in the lunchroom with a group of older boys, none...
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Chapter 3: In Search of the Elusive Sasquatch
...party; Frank stays home, but Lisa tags along with Karaoke. She freezes when she sees Cheese in the corner, who hails her as “Freaky” and starts singing the theme of Ghostbusters.
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Karaoke is trying to convince a totally inebriated Cheese to go home when Jimmy enters the room. Lisa hasn’t seen him in a while,...
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