Summary of Who Moved My Cheese?

Summary of Who Moved My Cheese?

Who Moved My Cheese is a story about mice which seeks to relate to readers how to cope with change. The story starts out with a group of old high school friends who meet for dinner and talk about their careers, relationships, and family life. This is when the main person in the group starts to tell the story of “Who Moved My Cheese”.

The story consists of four characters: they include mice, Sniff and Scurry, and the miniature people, Hem and Haw. It starts out when they all are to go out and find cheese in a maze. After some amount of time, they finally arrive at a mound of cheese. Hem and Haw decide that they are going to build a house that is located at the mound of cheese. The story then takes a turn when they arrive back at the mound and find that the cheese is gone.

Scurry and Sniff quickly leave the empty part of the maze in search of new cheese. Hem and Haw, on the other hand, are mad that the cheese is gone and decide that the cheese will magically reappear. They soon go on to find that they are starving, prompting Haw’s decision to change strategies and go into the maze to find new cheese. Hem, however, is still mad about the change, and he will not leave the house. Throughout the maze, Haw decides to write down inspirational messages that he wants Hem to know if he ends up following him. Haw, after looking for the cheese for a while, finally runs into Scurry and Sniff at the new mound of cheese. Hem never does arrive at the mound of cheese in the story.

To tie this story to real life, the author tells it, as a parable of sorts, to a group of students introduced at the beginning. The moral is, as the famous Aesop would say, that change is a part of life, and we should embrace it. We must be able to recognize it and learn that change is happening. We must be able to motivate ourselves and assure ourselves that change can be a good thing. His number one lesson in this book is that we should let change be...