Dienstag, 21. April 2009

The Mosquito Coast

The book "The Mosquito Coast" tells the story about the young boy charlie. His father Allie Fox is a really strange person. Allie is a man who is fed up with the American society. He think that he is the last man in the world and all the other people are standing after him. So he travells with his family to the island Jeronimo. There Allie wants to build up his own town. And he also create a machine which is called "Fat Boy". The machine producted ice without any electricity. But one night "Fat Boy" explodes and damages the whole town, so they have to leave Jeronimo. They go to a village which is called Guampu. But when Allie see there some people who are watching TV in a church he becomes angry. At the same night he brings the church to burn. After that he wants to go back to the boat from his family, but then he is shot into his neck. Because of that he can't move anymore. After some days the family suddenly recognize taht Allie pulled himself a long way away from his family. When Charlie searchs him he finds his father but Allie was dead. Charlie, his mother, his brother Jerry and his sisters go back to America.