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The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind Quotes

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Throughout The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba displays many respectable character traits and qualities that show off how he expresses himself as a person. Included in these traits are William’s luck, determination, and his creativity. William consistently shows these traits for the duration of the book, continuously demonstrating a positive personality to the reader. These personality traits help reform him as a person, not only for life events but for moral and emotional events in his life. From the start of The Boy, the reader is shown that the area William grew up in is not one of wealth and fortune. It is deep into poverty, many of the people are poor and hungry, and William’s own family can barely afford to scrape by.

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