The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind written by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer is the novel of true events, of hard times, death, starvation, creation, and hope was written in autobiography and biography form published in July of 2009. The setting of the novel takes place in the drought and hunger of Malawi Africa. William explains his life and the hardships that not only him and his family faced but what everyone faced. William was a very smart boy who had a dream, his dream changed the Malawians living conditions. William extented is education and successfully built the first windmill giving 2% of the Malawians electricity and running water.
William and his family was just like every other family in Malawi owning a family farm and selling …show more content…
William always admired his schooling and education but he faced many hardships with it. Williams school was very expensive for his family, the school had no money, kids were starving, kids dropped out. One day williams family had came to the decision that William could no longer go to primary school he must stay home and help his father because schooling was getting way to expensive. William was not happy with their decision, it made him very upset that his own parents would take away his dreams like that. If William wanted to continue his education he had to be his own teacher. Sure enough William traveled to the library everyday reading booking, learning english, and asking the libran any extra questions he had. William and his best friend Gilbert studied together, they helped each other out because Gilbert was in school and William was touching …show more content…
In the meanwhile of searching for parts kids who were in school build Williman. Kids called william mean names referring him as druggie or a garbage digger. These hurtful names didn't really hurt him because deep down he knew what he was doing and the good he was going to bring to his town. With the help of Geoffrey and Gilbert sure enough Willam built the first windmill of Malawi. With numerous amounts of hardships, in the end willam gave 2 percent of the Mawlains electricity and power. Willman is currently now 30 years old and pursuing his dreams of education and science. The overall purpose of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind was, giving all readers the message that no matter what you come from or what you have there's still ways to be someone and pursue your dreams. In my opinion the novel is a very inspiring and emotional story, from reading what William and his family went through to what William has become gives readers a million emotions inside and out. This novel impacted me all through reading however, the quote said by Williams father on page 152 paragraph 3, “One of the mysterious, yet wonderful this about hunger is it only kills men.” this quote impacted me because, the men fight and struggle for the women in their lives, and just picturing Williams dad trying to feed 8 people through a drought kills
William and his family was just like every other family in Malawi owning a family farm and selling …show more content…
William always admired his schooling and education but he faced many hardships with it. Williams school was very expensive for his family, the school had no money, kids were starving, kids dropped out. One day williams family had came to the decision that William could no longer go to primary school he must stay home and help his father because schooling was getting way to expensive. William was not happy with their decision, it made him very upset that his own parents would take away his dreams like that. If William wanted to continue his education he had to be his own teacher. Sure enough William traveled to the library everyday reading booking, learning english, and asking the libran any extra questions he had. William and his best friend Gilbert studied together, they helped each other out because Gilbert was in school and William was touching …show more content…
In the meanwhile of searching for parts kids who were in school build Williman. Kids called william mean names referring him as druggie or a garbage digger. These hurtful names didn't really hurt him because deep down he knew what he was doing and the good he was going to bring to his town. With the help of Geoffrey and Gilbert sure enough Willam built the first windmill of Malawi. With numerous amounts of hardships, in the end willam gave 2 percent of the Mawlains electricity and power. Willman is currently now 30 years old and pursuing his dreams of education and science. The overall purpose of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind was, giving all readers the message that no matter what you come from or what you have there's still ways to be someone and pursue your dreams. In my opinion the novel is a very inspiring and emotional story, from reading what William and his family went through to what William has become gives readers a million emotions inside and out. This novel impacted me all through reading however, the quote said by Williams father on page 152 paragraph 3, “One of the mysterious, yet wonderful this about hunger is it only kills men.” this quote impacted me because, the men fight and struggle for the women in their lives, and just picturing Williams dad trying to feed 8 people through a drought kills