Cheese In The Maze Character Analysis

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There are four characters in the story. Each of these characters represents a part of us. :-
Hem and Haw – Little people
Sniff and Scurry – mice
Sniff: Good and always sniffs out changes early before others are aware of it.
Scurry: search what is needed and takes actions immediately.
Hem: tries to deny and resists change as he fears it will lead to something worse.
Haw: Always learns to adapt in time when he sees change can lead to something better.
All four characters in the story search for Cheese in the maze. The “Maze” in the story represents where we spend time looking for what we want. It can be the organization we work in, the community we live in, or the relationships we have in your life.
Cheese is the Metaphor. Cheese is what we
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Summary of the story
Every individual has a different approach to deal with this change. Some refuse to adapt to change that was happening. But there are others who are always ready and are quick on their feet to make themselves adapt to change. Someone always resists change by thinking that change may worsen the current situation.
Story start with search of these four characters, in the maze for the cheese what they love and what they want to make it. Every morning, the mice & the little people headed over to Cheese Station C where they found their cheese. It was a large store of Cheese that Hem and Haw make comfortable with the cheese center make it as their home and moved themselves near to the cheese Centre. To make themselves feel more at home, Hem & Haw decorated the walls with sayings. One read:
Having Cheese Makes You Happy
When a person succeeds in to achieve what he wanted to have then it makes him feel happy. Then he/she start enjoying it. That’s how hem and haw after finding the cheese station C felt so happy and make it as their home by decorating
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He stopped for a rest & wrote on the wall of the Maze:

Smell the Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old
Try to figure out changes and always analyze the situations that are going to effect, that will wake you before it’s too late.
Haw wondered if Hem had moved on, or if he was still paralyzed by his own fears. Then, Haw remembered the times when he had felt his best in the Maze. It was when he was moving along. He wrote:
Movement in a New Direction Helps You Find New Cheese
It’s better to move with change if you move with the change you have the chance of finding new things and solutions to the problems, ways to handle difficulties.
Haw started to dark corridor where the cheese is no more he started to move in the direction to adapt to the situation of cheeselessness and realize to move towards new path in the maze to find new cheese Centre. Haw started to enjoy himself with the way of finding things due change. He stopped to write again on the wall:
When You Move Beyond Your Fear, You Feel

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