Mosquito coast - Who do you think is the bravest or strongest character in the novel and why?

        Mother is also a good candidate for the title of the bravest character, but I would probably think she is the most patient and tolerant of all and not the bravest. Though mother puts up with Allie’s strange character and behavior, she never really stood up for herself. She always followed his orders and she even went away from her home in America without saying a word or expressing her opinion.

        Charlie, I should say, is the less daring of all the characters in the book, as he always tries to please his father and even up to the end he refuses to let go of the divine image of his father that he has in his mind. Maybe that is because almost everything he knows comes from his father’s teachings that he considers him to be a wise man and maybe even believe him when he says that he is the ‘last man’.

        Jerry on the other hand started showing his disagreement to father’s decisions early in the novel, even before they started building up Jeronimo, when they first arrived there. For example when they first arrived he said, “This place stinks, it’s crappo.”