The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Choice board #1- Comic Strip
Storyboard Text
- Because of flooding, then drought, along with high fertilizer price, William's crop does not do well.
- We won't have enough food.
- I will pay you what I can in grain.
- People from other villages came to get ganyu, or day work from the chief.
- Please! Give us a day job! We will work in your fields!
- Yes!
- William's family sells their animals before the price for them is too low, so that they can buy more food.
- No phala (food they eat at breakfast) today son. We need to cut back.
- William's family has to start cutting down on how much they eat, and they stop eating breakfast.
- Aww. Okay.
- People become very desperate and start selling household items.
- For her family to survive, William's mother makes flour cakes to sell.