How culture shapes the heroes in both Heart of a Samurai and The Boy Who Harnessed 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

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.