Summary Of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

Williams father was a trader and while on his way to the market he dropped one of his bags. When William writes about the way in which his childhood belief in magic, passed down to him by his father, gives way to a belief in science when his family is faced with starvation. He writes about the sway magic held over him as a boy growing up in malawi before he turned to science.

In the beginning of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William went to a field to see a wizard to drink some potion the would make him bigger and stronger. William was a little person and wanted to be bigger and more tougher than others. WIlliam wanted to see if the potion was working so he went to a baseball field and picked a fight with the biggest person he could find at the field. WIlliam started the fight to soon find out that he was about to lose the fight and that the potion was not working.
After people knew about the magic and the effects that it has on people everyone was wanting to try it. Everyone believed that the magic worked and everyone was trying it. It became such a big hit in malawi that it started to spread like wildfire and it actually started to become a violence thing.

Children in Malawi have grown accustomed to hearing stories about magic and the effects that it has on people. Kids would enjoy sitting down and listening to stories and Witches,Wizards,Men with superhuman abilities and animals that could talk. William was not that interested in magic but he still feared it throughout his childhood and even into his teenage years. WIlliam also feared the power of witches and witchcraft.

Malawians are part of the large Bentu population the migration northward from South Africa at about the turn of the twentieth century. Malawi is a landlocked country that lies east of the Zambian, North and South of the of Mozambique, And south of