Mosquito Coast and Poisonwood Bible

In English we watched the movie the Mosquito Coast with Harrison Ford. We watched it because it related to The Poisonwood Bible.

I thought that the father in the movie is very similar to Nathan Price. They both have to defend what they believe in, although one believes in science and one believes in God. They both traveled to another country to try to civilize the people there, to change the way they are. In both cases, it ends up blowing up in their faces. I could also picture the mother in the movie as Orleanna Price. They are both kind of quiet. Both wives went along with their husbands’ antics in the beginning but showed their own opinions later in the story.

The children in the Mosquito Coast do not play as big a role in the story as the children in the Poisonwood Bible. The oldest son, Charlie, is the one telling the story in the movie, but the other three children do not have much of a role. In the Poisonwood Bible, all of the children tell the story and are an important part of the book. Similar to the mothers, the children follow their father in the beginning but eventually go against them.

The general storylines of both the Poisonwood Bible and the Mosquito Coast were very similar for the beginning, but we haven’t finished the book so I can’t speak for the rest of it.