The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind tells the incredible true story of William Kamkwamba and his quest to bring electricity to his poor town in Africa. Although many help him throughout his journey, William is the main character and main protagonist of the book. Throughout the novel, he reflects on his adventures leading up to his creation of a windmill that powers parts of the town. In order to accomplish such a feat, William had to be hardworking, mature, and creative. William exhibits all of these qualities and many more to prove that he is the best thing that happened to Malawi during his lifetime. The novel takes place over the course of several year, so, at the start, we see William as a naive young boy. His town is largely ruled by the fear of magic, and, William himself says, “before i discovered science, magic ruled the world,” (Kamkwamba 3). However, as he started having encounters with “magic”, he realized that he couldn’t rely on it to take him where he wants to go in life. So, he started to mature. As a child, it’s very hard to come to terms with the fact that you have to own up to your mistakes. After being sold fake magic by his cousin and getting beat up for it, William realized that he had to stop acting like so much of a child and become a mature young adult. In addition to …show more content…
Because Malawi was so poor, William had to get creative. He never had access to a store that could conveniently give him all of the supplies that he needed. Instead, William used “old water pumps, tractor rims half the size of (his) body, filters, hoses, pipes, and plows” (Kamkwamba 176) to construct makeshift parts of his electrical endeavours. He built structures to hold his windmill together and remodeled his house to hold the wires and boxes that powered the lights. If not for his unconventional thinking and creative mentality, William would have never gotten the chance to change the lives of those around
19-23 June - I will be TDY in El Paso TX: This could be a week that you can come to ARSOUTH and help us develop an NCO ADOS position write up for next FY and maybe the same week you can engage the ARNORTH SGM(SGM Clause) if the 377th TSC will support them in the near future.
William kamkwamba had a very well set mind and very set ego and he would never give up on his windmill for his windmill he analyzed it and he monitored the aerodynamics of the windmill. William kamkwamba had to dig through hundreds of scraps and
The Divine Wind, written by Garry Disher, is a novel in which not only shows and describes the struggle of characters during World War II in Broome, Australia, but also the many aspects of prejudice which affect namingly Ida Penrose, Mitsy Sennosuke, and Magistrate Killian.
In No Promises in the Wind many people brought gifts to Josh and Joey, when they were on their journey. Some were actual gifts while others were not. Some were gifts that weren’t physical, they were figurative. Throughout the entire book, Josh and Joey made many friends, and with those friends came many gifts.
I saw him dart this way and that, a silvery, brilliant, shining life, and disappear into the darkness of the deep” (180). By claiming that his father turned into a fish, Edward’s son is able to pretend that his father never died. William uses a fantastical story to avoid confronting the hard truth of his father’s
Character Analysis Essay In the novel The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William and his family live in a small town called Malawi. William is a student, that loves to learn. “...you will always find him in the town's library.” (pg 139 paragraph 2 by William Kamkwamba).
The novel The Divine Wind (1998) by Garry Disher and the 2003 film, Japanese Story, directed by Sue Brooks both explore the theme of 'love' through the use of novel and film techniques. Through the studying of the context and textual form of both of these texts, a greater understanding of the important ideas is achieved. This includes exploring the context, the characters and the key theme of love.
In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, the major symbol found in the book is William’s windmill. This symbolizes hope for a better life for his family. “You have a child who can perform wonders. You’ll never complain about kerosene” (205). This quote proves he helped his family in many ways. A better life where they could have electricity and lights. The windmill represents the ambition and determination William has to build the windmill when everyone doubts and makes fun of him. This symbol is talked about all throughout the book, as it is the reason the book was
Throughout the twentieth century, numerous dramas that were written in the United States presented ideas and situations that had the purpose of changing a reader’s attitude towards a specific subject. This is the case of the play “Inherit the Wind”, a piece written by the playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Throughout the years, many literary scholars have argued whether or not “freedom of thought” has stood as a predominant theme in the play. While this issue may bring about countless debates, my respect towards others’ viewpoints has allowed me to pick a side and to defend it with textual evidence from the play itself. From my perspective, the main theme in Inherit the Wind is freedom of thought.
The decade of the 1920’s was a busy grouping of ten years in America. The power of women’s desire to vote won them suffrage while uncertainty sprouted from government actions such as prohibition and especially the Scopes Trial of 1925. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s play Inherit the Wind is a depiction of this unsettling event that took place in 1925. The four main characters of the play are Bertram Cates, Rachel Brown, Henry Drummond, and Matthew Harrison Brady. The friendships between these four main characters are used to show that friendship is a powerful bond, and how the bonds protected Bertram Cates from a larger punishment in court.
Often times when reading, characters will seem as if they've been plucked straight from the real world and thrust into the plot of a story. Inherit the Wind by Robert Lee is a novel adaptation of a play that was originally written in 1955. Inherit the Wind focuses on the predominantly devout Christian town—Hillsboro. Bertram Cates, a school teacher labeled as an "evolutionist," is being prosecuted by a well-known and beloved politician—Matthew Harrison Brady. Consequently, a quick-witted and intelligent lawyer—Henry Drummond—comes to town to defend Cates and "the right to think." After reading Robert Lee's novel adaptation of Inherit the Wind, it was evident Rachel Brown and I possess some similar qualities and traits. For example, neither of us like to go against the popular belief, we try to be open-minded, and we are put under an abundance of pressure from our parents and society.
The novel The Divine Wind (1998) by Garry Disher and the 2003 film, Japanese Story, directed by Sue Brooks both explore the common theme of 'love' through the use of novel and film techniques. Through the studying of the context and textual form of both of these texts, a greater understanding of the important ideas is achieved.
Using only the diagrams from his most cherished book, “Using Energy”, William built his own windmill from junk yard scraps and eventually supplied his entire family with electricity and water. Inspired by the despair of his countries' situation, William heroically brought hope and opportunity to the entire nation.
Disher demonstrates isolation of the ethnic groups and the regional and urban divide present in The Divine Wind through the beliefs, experiences, and values of the Killian family and Hartley Penrose. Both culturally and geographically isolated from the rest of Australia, the people of Northern and Central Australia, specifically Broome felt ignored, misunderstood, and misconstrued by the urban South. This is an ongoing theme in Australia. They resented interference from the federal government. The North feared invasion from Japanese and argued that Australia would perish if the North and the Centre were not populated and developed. Racism was intrinsic, with the Aborigines seen either as treacherous or lazy or as childlike and in need of protection. White Australians were the minority and their high statuses were a scant consolation when they were vastly outnumbered by a diverse range of cultures, the Japanese, Malays, and other South East Asians. Although, the minority, the white residents felt as if they had a power of the other ethnicities. Therefore, opening segregated cinemas, a Register of Aliens, and a clear but unofficial racial hierarchy. Their geographical isolation led to specific cultures, views, and beliefs on race. The regional and urban divide was evident when Jaimie Kilian’s wealthy urban family arrived in Broome. Jaimie felt entitled as his father was the new magistrate in town, he was arrogant and opinionated towards the regional community. When Hart offered his friendship, Kilian responded by saying “I don’t need any friends. “He walked as if he had owned the town.” Jamie enjoyed having an edge over Hart, he felt entitled as he was an urban elite. “Jamie was competitive. In almost everything you could name, Jamie was better than me…We were opposites.” Hart displayed what many felt about the new family from the Urban South. “I envied him, I was jealous, I pitied myself.”
Kamkwamba, after some thought about a bicycle dynamo, his fondness for radios, and the wind levels at his home, decided to create a makeshift windmill. He experimented with a small model using a cheap dynamo and, using this experience, eventually made a functioning windmill that powered some electrical appliances in his family's house. Local farmers and journalists investigated the spinning device and Kamkwamba's fame in international news skyrocketed. A blog about his accomplishments was written on Hacktivate and Kamkwamba took part in the first event celebrating his particular type of ingenuity called Maker Faire Africa, in Ghana in August 2009.[2]Kamkwamba was born in a family of relative poverty and relied primarily on farming to survive. According to his biography, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, his father had been a rough fighting man who changed after discovering the Christian God. A crippling famine forced Kamkwamba to drop out of school, and he was not able to return to school because his family was unable to afford the tuition fees. In a