Stephon must write a compare-and-contrast analysis of how culture shapes the heroes in both Heart of a Samurai and The Boy Who H
arnessed the Wind. Read this passage from The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Most students at Kacikolo Secondary and Wimbe Primary stopped going to school during the famine. After I dropped out, Gilbert continued to go to classes, and he told me that each day fewer and fewer classmates showed up. The teachers would call recess around 9:40 A.M., then disappear themselves into the fields and trading center to search for food. By February, there was no school at all.
What does this passage show about the culture in which William was raised?
There were not enough qualified teachers to make school worth attending.
Very few people attended school, because most jobs did not require it.
Most families did not consider education to be an important part of life.
Sometimes survival interfered with the villagers’ ability to receive an education.
