Chapter 3-- This chapter starts off with William’s Uncle John dying. He had been sick with Tuberculosis and died soon after he found out. This was the first time William had seen his family hurt so bad and his father cry it was the proper way to mourn his death in their culture. Uncle John gave his land to his eldest son Jeremiah and within years all of his father's land was gone. In that time William starts hunting, proving for the family, and becoming a man. I wonder if this is normal for someone at such a young age? Chapter 4-- During this chapter William’s body starts changing and he stops hunting. He starts spending most of his time meeting new people in the trading center with his friends. William also starts getting interested in radios, he takes them apart and tries to fix them. William even attempts to fix the radios for money. As he gets older he decides he does not want to be a farmer and believes he is supposed to be a scientist. William also describes the jobs for men and women in his religion which aren’t really unheard of, men do the fieldwork and women take care of the home and little ones. A drought came through Malawi and …show more content…
He was very intrigued by this invention and he began to work with his radio to make his own invention to make the radio work when he pedals the bike. The other energy problem comes from deforestation. The big tobacco companies cut down the trees to make room for more tobacco fields, this keeps the people of Malawi poor and having to go to bed at 7 pm because there are no lights. Williams family was having a hard time feeding everyone so they cut down to one meal per person per day. Even though this famine was going on the Government did nothing to help. William decided that he needed to stop worrying about the electricity and needed to study really hard for his primary school test and go to a secondary school to be more than just a