William Kamkwamba's The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

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Do you ever think about where the first electrical socket came from? Or how someone got electricity to actually work? William Kamkwamba was just a young one when he started. He began reading and getting more information about how such items came to be. He is quite the character and it really amazes me how he became to be such a successful person. In his bestseller “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” he goes through life and explains how exactly that happened. When reading this I thought of a lot of characteristics he has. Motivated, Curious, and Creative are three top traits that William shows throughout this book. The first trait that I thought that William has is Motivated. Ever since he first heard the radio he wanted to know what was going on inside. Him and his cousin Geoffrey would take apart broken radios to see what was inside and see if they could potentially fix it. He had many trial and errors, but didn’t stop him from trying to fix the radios. “Through nothing but trial and error, we discovered that the white noise was caused by the integrated circuit board, the bigger piece, which contains all the wires and …show more content…
Throughout the book William and his family go through famine and it really affects them. During this time he has nothing to do since he is not in the fields working. He discovers the bicycle dynamo. One night his father’s friend rode up to his house on a bicycle with a lamp powered by a dynamo, when he got off the bike, the light switched off. This really made William think about how this worked. He asked his father’s friend and he said he stopped peddling, this blew William’s mind. “I couldn’t get this out of my head. How did spinning a wheel create light? Soon I was stopping everyone with a dynamo and asking them how it worked.” (Kamkwamba, 79). William was so fascinated by this little switch that turns on and off and this shows how curious he is by many different
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