A Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Summary 3

William wanted to be a great scientist. He actually already made a plan ahead. He was going for a school that has all the things he needed to achieve his dream. He felt confident and believed in himself, but things don’t go like what he expected. His exam grades are lower than what he think, he then must go to a lower class school which is the Kachokolo Secondary School.

 

Later after William was studying there, he was forced to drop out because the lacking of school fees which he doesn’t have enough. He then didn’t give up in finding knowledge and achieving his dream. He educated himself by borrowing some books from the small community library. After reading of some books, he found a picture of a windmill that reminds him about generating electricity. He started to gain more confidence and planned to build a windmill to generate power to his family’s home. Even though William was lacking the experience in engineering, the power of confidence keeps him up to begin researching.

William starts researching about the turbine and all those things that produced electricity. He thinks about his old idea (the bicycle dynamo) and then combines all his thoughts together. He finally picture out the windmill he wanted to build and all the materials he needed. Then without wasting more time, he went to collect some materials from the scrap yard. He was actually being teased by students while he was doing that. He first makes an experiment with his friend on a radio windmill. He really succeeds like what he aims for, and this creates an inspiration for him to make a better one.

His work starts to improve more and more. Now William was creating a big windmill. He took the fan, blades, bolts, and dynamo for creating it. He also took some materials found in the scrap yard such as the broken bicycle, a tractor fan, melted plastic pipes, bamboo stalks, and scavenged copper wires. With these stuffs he makes his proudest creation, his first big windmill. Although William met some errors and mistakes in doing it (such as accidentally blew up some parts of the machines because he forget to insert the dynamo), he still finally create a windmill that was able to generates electricity. Let’s see in the next summary how the whole world reacts to William’s achievement.