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jennalistens 's review for:
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba
I loved the last 1/3 of the book. The beginning was a little slow and his long descriptions about magic bored me.
The last 1/3 of the book was incredibly inspiring and captivating. This young boy was incredibly resourceful in a time of great need - he didn't give up and didn't let public ridicule stop him. Obviously, he is incredibly intelligent and motivated. The fact that he was able to teach himself complicated physical and electrical concepts and then put them into use, improvising on all his materials, is truly admirable.
However, the mot poignant and memorable part of this memoir for me was the famine. William's descriptions of his and his family's starvation was hard to read because he made me feel his pain. The pain he felt from hunger became my pain. I felt what it was like to be slowly starving to death. This puts so much into perceptive for me for what millions of people are going through who are in a food crisis today, in South Sudan and Chad, just to name a few places facing severe food shortages and are dependent on international aid.
The last 1/3 of the book was incredibly inspiring and captivating. This young boy was incredibly resourceful in a time of great need - he didn't give up and didn't let public ridicule stop him. Obviously, he is incredibly intelligent and motivated. The fact that he was able to teach himself complicated physical and electrical concepts and then put them into use, improvising on all his materials, is truly admirable.
However, the mot poignant and memorable part of this memoir for me was the famine. William's descriptions of his and his family's starvation was hard to read because he made me feel his pain. The pain he felt from hunger became my pain. I felt what it was like to be slowly starving to death. This puts so much into perceptive for me for what millions of people are going through who are in a food crisis today, in South Sudan and Chad, just to name a few places facing severe food shortages and are dependent on international aid.