The Mosquito Coast task 2

Why did your dad want to leave the USA?

He wanted to, because he thought that he was unfairly treated and no one respected his inventions.

He was also against the religion.

What do you mean with no one respected his inventions?

You know he built a lot of things. For example the little boy, this machine could make ice out of water with no electricity, but his boss found that useless because the whole USA has enough electricity.

Did you like to leave the USA?

No I did not, but my whole family leaved so what else could I do.

How did you feel when you got to your new place?

I felt really uncomfortable. This jungle, you know, everywhere was wood and green, and I didn’t like it.

But after some days I accustomed to the jungle.

Do you know why and who shot your father?

I think he got shot because he inflamed the church, but I don’t know who shot him because it was night and I didn’t see many things.

The Mosquito Coast task 1

Hello Tom,

How are you? I hope that you are fine, because I am not. In this letter you will find out where I was the past few months. I left because my dad hated the USA and wanted to leave, because he was not happy there.

After his decision we went on a ship and drove to the jungle in middle Central America. As soon as we arrived there, we met Mr. Haddy who took us with his boat to jeronimo. We met there the Maywits, but that was not their real name. We built their small village and my father built a huge ice machine, which was called fat boy.

One day some soldiers came to our place and dad told them to go away, but they didn’t listen to him and so he locked them in the fat boy to freeze them to death. As soon as the soldiers realized what was going on they started to shoot and the chemicals of the fat boy inflamed and destroyed the village. After that we had to move on and we built a new village again. One day Mr. Haddy brought us some gas for our houseboat and we moved on. After some time we saw a real village with electricity, real houses and a church. My dad jumped out of the boat and disappeared into nowhere. Suddenly the church exploded and my dad appeared, but then someone shot my dad from behind and he died shortly after that.

I miss my dad because I loved him. Sometimes I think that he deserves the death because he did a lot of bad things. But he was also a good inventor and a good leader. Anyway I will see you when we get back to the USA.

Yours Charlie