The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Lesson Plan

What is William's biggest fear? Why? Does William accept his fate? How does his fear motivate him?

William says his greatest fear is ending up another poor Malawian farmer laboring in the soil, whose life is determined not by hard work and effort, but by rain and the price of fertilizer and seeds. William doesn't want a life in which there's hardly enough to "simply survive." But with the family not being able to afford William's school fees yet again, it seems as if William's worst fear is coming true - how can he escape the life of a poor farmer without education? William says that there is nothing to do but accept his fate; there is no time to grieve, as it's all...