Hope that this is the last one?

"The bitter thing was all the spirit, all the gallantry, was wasted. For even more than inferiors, they accepted and looked forward to being Capped. It was a part of becoming a knight, or of turning from a girl to lady. Thinking of this, I saw how good things could be meaningless in isolation. What value did courage have, without a free and challenging mind to direct it?"

How does this relates to the word freedom? Now that is what I call hard. I think that how this is related to freedom is that they needed a free mind to think of weather to run to the white mountains or get capped. And for this quote, it tells you that Will is struggling to follow which path. The path where the people in the Red Castle follows which is being capped, or follow Ozymandias and go to the White Mountain where freedom is awaiting for him. All Will needs now is a free mind to direct which path he is suppose to follow and so that he would be happy for the rest of his life. But if you read the book, he is stuck with love when he should do something else and continue the journey to the White mountains. Eloise is the reason why Will stayed at the Red Castle and left Beanpole and Henry on their way to the White mountain. I think that one of the reason that this is related to the word freedom is because Will needs a free mind to make up weather or not to leave Eloise or to stay with her.

The second reason why I think that this is related to the word freedom is that the nobles in the quote above are all capped and all mature and stuff so is Jack, Will's best friend, and Eloise. All of them explained how being Capped is good for you because you are all mature and then you can be a real adult. But! You would lose all of your childhood memories. I wouldn't really say you lose all of them but you don't have any feeling of how you felt about all those good, happy memories. Freedom is the path I would take if I was Will. Because do you want to not have feelings to all those good, precious memories that you have for childhood and those memories is all that are funny and you want to remember your friends right? All those sad memories, happy ones, confused ones, the feeling for your first crush and all those kind of stuff. So this relates to freedom because all you need is freedom and what you want or what you need. It is what decision you make. To listen to your parents, or what your heart desires.

Will... Again...

As always, there is something behind this that made us (me and my friends) do all this. It really took us a long time but we don't mind right? It's still the start of torture!

1. How were the Tripods able to control the people?

The Tripods were able to control the people by capping them. BUT, there is more than just answering this question. I think that the Tripods washed away all the memories they have in childhood when they placed the "cap" on their heads as what Ozymandias told Will in the second chapter. That is a very long paragraph to tell you about what Ozymandias told Will, so I am going to skip that. Another thing is that I think that maybe the Tripods was men, (obviously) and those men wanted to rule the world, so they made the Tripods and from there, they would rule the world by giving those who are capped instructions that they have to follow. But those men are smart enough to do some device thing in the Tripods so that the Tripods don't go to the White Mountain where the men lives in. And I can link that to why there are free men on the White Mountain and why the Tripods don't go there at all to cap people.

2. Find evidence (quotations from the novel) to show that even though Will is comfortable living at the castle, he is frustrated that the Comte, Comtesse, and Eloise have been capped. One evidence that Will is comfortable living at the castle is that he was settled there and there was Eloise to accompany him and he actually didn't want to leave her like in this quote '"They chose well. I'm glad Eloise." She said, "I wanted to say good-bye. Will." "It won't be for long. A few days. Then, when I am Capped..." She shook her head. "I shall not see you again. Did you know ?" "But I am staying here. Your father said so, this morning." "You will stay, but not I. Did no one tell you?" "Tell me what?" "When the tournament is over, the Queen goes to serve the Tripods. It is always done." I said stupidly, "Serve them where?" "In their city." "BUt for how long?" "I have told you. Forever." Her words shocked me, but the look on her face was more shocking still. It was a kind of rapt devotion, the expression of someone who hugs in secret her heart's desire. Dazed, I asked her, "Your parents know this?"' found on page 135. This quote shows that Will is frustrated that the Comte, Comtesse and Eloise are going to be Capped and serve the Tripods in their city. I think, personally, that Will likes Eloise because he was shocked by her words and along the journey to the white mountains, he thought about her and how she appears in his mind. So, Will, is actually more frustrated when Eloise is going to be Capped than the Comte, and the Comtesse.

3. Find evidence (quotes) to show how Will feels about being capped

Who are you like? Well, I'm like Will in the White mountains...

Who are you like? Well, I'm like Will in 'The White Mountains" by John Christopher. You might not know this book... Like most of you reading this blogpost. So what I decided to do is tell you the summary of this book before I start. Here is the summary.

Long ago, the Tripods-huge, three-legged machines- descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. But for a brief time in each person's life - in childhood - he is not a slave. For Will, his time of freedom is about to end - unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where is possibility of freedom still exists.

So now that you now more about this book, like at least have the summary, you guys are prepared for my blogpost! :D This time, I have to write about how Will is like me. Let's talk about his personality first. I think that Will is a open kind of character, and a little bit cowardly sometimes like in the beginning of the book.

Starting of with open. Why I think that he is open is because I've read the story book to chapter 5. So I should know by now how he acts. I sort of start to think that he is open when Ozymandias, a unknown person, came up to him and start talking. At first Will didn't like it but as days goes by, he started to realize that maybe Ozymandias is starting to get useful and that is how i think that I'm like him. Because sometimes, I wanted to make friends. So I talk to them but then I realized that they aren't going to be much help so I left them. But after a while, I started to think that maybe they are good after all. So I started to hang out with them and got information about things that I don't know.

Another reason why I know that Will is like me is because he is a little bit cowardly sometimes like in the beginning of the book, when he met Ozymandias, I realized that he was actually a cowardly boy. For example, he is scared about Harry at first because Harry was like a bully and all those kind of stuff and another example is that he was afraid of the Tripods. He was afraid of what happens after he gets capped like you know, after you get capped, you will have to follow what the Tripods want you to do, the Tripods taking over your body and you won't have freedom. But after meeting Ozymandias and listening to what Ozymandias wants to say, he starts to think of new problems like should I trust him? Is it really a place where Tripods don't go? Or even if I go, can I get through this task safely. So I am like him because I think of problems like that too for lots of things. But I always make it through safely. So I am voting that Will will get through this dangerous task safely just like me. :D