In the book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, a boy named William and his family struggle through challenges in their small village in Africa. They must face the reality of hunger and illnesses such as malaria and cholera. Although while all this is happening William has a bright mind and takes up an interest in science, but cannot go to school due to the fees. He begins to learn about how to build and re-wire certain electrical devices. With this in mind, William addresses the problem of not having power throughout his village.
William is a brave and powerful presence throughout the events of the story. In the book William is selfless, thinking of others before worrying about his own needs and wants. Even when his family was starving, he was constantly trying to think of ways to make their life better. When he struggles, instead of giving up he keeps pushing and doesn’t lose hope. “With that little success, I started planning for an even bigger windmill,” (Kamkwamba, William, page 73). William is curious, and
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For most of his childhood, he hunts, gathering food for his family instead of playing. Although, he does enjoy a normal childhood until the famine hits. As he is unable to go to school he begins going to the local library, reading up on everything he can. Everyone in his village shamed him for having an idea, but he pursued it anyways. “Even days when I tried sneaking past, someone would spot me through the open window and yell, ‘There goes the madman off to smoke his chamba!’,” (Kamkwamba, William, page 79). And when he did eventually get his invention to work, he immediately began to think of the whole village, starting with getting the local well to pump water so that is saved the women collecting it time and effort. Going forward with his ideas shows William being brave, the learning his curiosity, and the thoughts of the whole village instead of just his family shows his
In his piece “The Storm” Elijah Paschelke reflects upon his 7 months in solitary confinement. He states that he “will never see the world the way I did before,” and then continues “I will never not see it the way I did before.” This statement suggests that he used to not notice the world around him, hence “not seeing”. He vows that he will never live the way that he did before because his time in prison has made him more appreciative of the smaller things in life.
Indian Horse is a novel by Richard Wagamese that beautifully explores the idea of family, and what it means to have people around you that make you feel at home. The reader is bombarded with an overwhelming sense of family and betrayal in the first few pages of the novel. As Richard Wagamese continues to write, one is able to see how safe Saul Indian Horse felt with his biological family, and he also shows how lost he felt without their love when he was taken to the Residential School. The school he was brought to was drained of all consensual love the moment it was open, and continued to fill the children with horrible feelings the entire time they were there. Indian Horse was unable to really feel as though he still had family while he was in the
He motivates me to be a better person and to stand up when I know that I need to. William is known as an unsung hero, and I think that after what he did he should be extremely famous and known. His story is impeccable and I will think of him as a role model everyday.
Williams uses dry and subtle words such as “car”, “coffee”, or even plain “water” to create this powerful and foreboding poem which is interpreted pessimistically after getting past the tedious words. Its implicit meaning can be hard to grasp because it is deeply embedded into the poem and also implies the opposite of what we are taught as humans; we grow up with plans, goals, desires too, and Williams opens the reader’s eyes to explain the pointlessness of it all. Williams writes this poem knowing he will contradict everything people learn to do starting from a young age. In spite of this, it may inspire readers to stop worrying about the small things and focus on the grand scheme, maybe get them “wanting to love beyond this meat and bone,” despite its adverse meaning (21). Ultimately, the author subduedly goes against the ideal rules of life and allows the reader to interpret it however they want- either explicitly understand that it is normal for humans to want thing, not want things, and be wanted, or implicitly understand that there is no point in investing in our desires, for when we die, our goals- both the finished and unfinished- will not matter in the
William states, "We're all trapped by other people's ideas, aren't we? " (Alexie, 63) William was obsessed with what society thought of him. Sherman Alexis describes him by, "No matter where he lived, William always felt uncomfortable, so he enjoyed other people's discomfort. " (60) William was insecure with himself.
Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat is a book that shows2 the strength of the University of Washington’s crew team. The book teaches many valuable lessons from life in the 1930’s. This piece of literature is based on the interviews, which went on for seven years. Joe Rantz, the star of the crew team, was abandoned by his father and step mom, for the second time at age 17. He eventually found comfort in the Olympic bound crew team. Joe Rantz went through many hardships when he was by himself, as well as the intense team workouts, the following quotes exemplify how Joe channeled his energy to be a great crew teammate, that could trust and be trusted by his teammates.
“Chapter 3” of No Promises in the Wind begins with the author, Irene Hunt, placing Josh and Joey in complete bewilderment. Unfortunately, they have just lost their comrad, friend, and brother, Howie. Attempting to leave the train, Howie lost his life trying to give his banjo to Josh. Dying right in front of his best, and only friend, was an event that Josh would remember for the rest of his life. Grieving, Josh and Joey do not know what they are going to do without their buddy, for without his optomistic attitude or talented musical skills they lost faith in themselves.
Nature is defined as the natural earth and the things on it or the essence of a person or thing. Nature is believed to be the major reason for the existence of everything. Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish one race as inferior or superior to another race or races. Nature has a major role in the promotion of racism over time. “Uncle Tom’s Children,” written by Richard Wright, implicitly explains some of the roles of nature in promoting racism especially in the Jim Crow Era. Whites tried to use nature against blacks in order to aggravate their suffering. They enacted various laws that did not allow blacks to live freely. In most cases,
The White Snow: A Literary Critical Look at Native Son “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn 't matter which color does the hating. It 's just plain wrong.” Muhammed Ali embodies the opposition to racism in American society by exposing its invalidity. In Native Son, a novel written by Richard Wright, Bigger Thomas, a black youth from South Side Chicago, must survive in a white dominated, American society.
In Terrance Hayes Book of poetry Wind in a Box, one can see that the poems are devoted to personal history, blues variation, prose poems, and attempts at getting to the core of defining one’s lineage. The blue poems in particular consider 20th century representations of race, culling wisdom, and impressions from many famous people. Hayes uses the word blue in many different titles of poems in order to show various themes throughout them that tie them together using popular cultural icons. It is obvious to see the significance the word blue plays throughout the Wind in a Box poetry collection. Hayes poems “The Blue Suess” and Booker’s Tomb” from the collection Upright Blues emphasize the times of tradition, rare and freedom in the most interesting ways.
They thought he was going to be just like them instead of him having his own individual interests. For example when they finally got a dog, they forgot to get the name of the dog so had think of a new one and the mother wanted to name the dog a scholarly name, ““You could name him after a passé school of literary criticism,”(pg 161) my mother suggested.”, even though he never really cared for their educated and uppity ways. Also that William corrected his mother that the dog was a she when she said “him” in the quote above. After that, the father brushed that off and kept calling it a “he” like on pages 161 “What’ll we name him?”, and 162 ““Dead,” he said. “Before we could even name him.”” which irritated
These include the history of windmills and their role concerning the survival in the immense plains that range from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River. The rise of the economic condition of those living around the wind farms along with the surge of investments from energy companies. Finally, the promising data relating to the amount of energy produced, and the consequences they will have on the environment. In the later and longer part of the article, the possible negative results or wind farms are brought up. Primarily, the points against wind farms have to do with the conservation of wildlife. This is separated into two sections, the first addresses the dangers wind turbines present to birds, the other on the dangers presented to bats.
Upon watching the movie and understanding the concepts of these two theories it becomes apparent that William was in a state of anomie and he used all five of the modes of adaptation in order to adapt to his strain. William’s ability to enter into the four delinquent modes of adaptation, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion, were a result of the breakdown of his social bonds, attachment, involvement, commitment, and belief.
Unlike her brother, Dorothy seems to be less solitary in her experiences, her accounts of what happened and who was with her are less personal than William’s. Dorothy tends to include everyone who surrounded her at that point and time – ‘We [Dorothy and her brother William] were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park’ – whereas William makes it a companionless experience, he forgets everyone that may have been sharing the moment with him – ‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’ . This, in conjunction with the use of imagery, similes and personification, not only makes William’s poems more accessible to a wide range of readers but it also adds character and personality, whereas Dorothy’s journal tends to be more reserved and closed to interpretation. Although both use semantic field of nature, William’s use is more affective as it conveys emotion, passion and attachment to his work.
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