The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Analytical Writing Assignment Draft:
(More than 75% of Malawi live below the poverty line, and 98% of them do not have electricity in their daily lives. However, a youthful child from Malawi managed to go against all odds and build a windmill in his own backyard to create electricity for people in his town to utilize. In the memoir, William is a young boy with a great deal of potential stranded in a place with an absence of many facilities. Although William and his family face many problems during the story, he manages to overcome all these hardships and sacrifice all he can to give himself a proper education. Throughout the book, he develops a love for science and starts building a windmill to create electricity in his home.) In William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, the authors use figurative language to reveal absolute poverty in Malawi by demonstrating the living situation, lack of resources and the famine.
William’s living situation affects a massive part of the story because the circumstances that he lives in has a large impact on his life, his journey and his story, and because of the way that they are forced to live, William and his family had to face many problems that might have differed if they lived in another environment, such as having to fight for food. At one point in the story, William was sent to ADMARC (Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation) by his parents to buy maize, but when he