Faith Like Potatoes Character Analysis

There are various ways to grow tasty, nutrient-packed potatoes, all of which are reasonably easy and straightforward. In a nutshell, potatoes grow best when placed in light, loose soil and placed out of direct sunlight—farmers who grow potatoes pray like mad men for rain because they want to ensure that they’ll be able to harvest a luxury of well-grown potatoes when the time comes. With most crops, you could see the “fruit of your labor” while it’s growing. Potatoes, on the other hand, grow quietly and out of sight while it is concealed in the ground where the seeds have been buried into. In the movie, “Faith Like Potatoes”, we are introduced to Angus Buchan, a Scottish farmer with a struggling life in Africa, who teaches us how our faith …show more content…
Not that Angus's life post-conversion is without trials and tragedies, though. Angus had to endure all the pain from not having saved his nephew from falling off a tractor. Angus struggled and even questioned God for the unanswered prayer of saving the child of his brother, but soon Angus realizes that there are some things that catch you off guard in circumstances, and that he should stop blaming himself for the terrible fate of his nephew. It is clear that Angus experienced a crisis of faith, but in holding firm led his family into great spiritual growth.

The last scene of the movie features Angus speaking in a stadium, and in high spirits asks his fellow farmers to plant potatoes, despite the fact that potatoes greatly need water and it rarely rains in Zulu. After four months of doubts and uncertainty that the potatoes would grow, Angus, together with Simeon, decided that it was time. And sure enough, they were able to harvest large, floury potatoes.
This is a very touching and moving story of one man’s trials which try his faith. Angus is a struggling man who fights his own inner demons with his farm in Africa and family until he makes a life changing resolution. He turns his life around when he gives