How is freedom related to the quote in pg111???

"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?" (p. 111)

My first answer for this is, is that there are many words in this quote that relate to freedom. A word like free, means that you want to be free, like if you are a slave, you want to be free, away from your master. You want to live your life. And in this case Will would like to be free of being capped. Another word is value. We have been learning about values in Health class. Good values will lead you in to a brighter future. Bad values, well, they will lead you in to a not too good future. Having a value is like for example you are writing your passages in your lit. circle. Some of us will say "Look at my lit. circle it is so long." And maybe "Look at my lit. circle it is so short." This relates to one of my values "Trying your best" (although I don't always do). Having a lit. circle that is really long but has no quality and is basically talking nonsense is truly terrible. But if yo have a shorter lit. circle but has good quality then you would probably get a decent grade. Like some people say it is the quality not the quantity. Another word, and this is a strong one, is courage. Having courage is definitely related to freedom. Courage will help you speak up for yourselves. Like if you are with a bad group of friends, you will need courage to stack up for yourself and not let them pick on you, and you will be free. Those are some of the words that I think relates to freedom.

Another answer to why the quote relates to freedom is that it shoes how much freedom means to Will. I think that Will is still pretty confused about the capping and the tripods'. He still asks himself if being capped is a good thing or a bad thing. I personally think that it is a bad thing. It shows that they sort of have no mind of their own and basically the tripods' are their masters and all they care about is worshipping them or serving them. If I was Will, I would too think about how good things could be meaningless in isolation. I think that if everyone was like Will, Henry and Beanpole, Will wouldn't be alone.

These are some of the reasons to why the quote relates to freedom.

The castle of the red tower.

How were the tripods able to control people?

The tripods need to control people because they wouldn't want the people going against them and asking for freedom. The only way people would find out about the previous society and how great the ancients were is if they were like Will, Henry and Beanpole. If the people went traveling when they weren't capped and they were going to the white mountains, they would probably find more than just grenades. If the people find more things they could probably take over the tripods. Like Will, Henry and Beanpole could probably use the grenade an blow up a tripod if they were in danger (Which they did).

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.

Will is certainly comfortable living at the castle, mostly because Eloise is there. I think that he likes Eloise. He is frustrated that the Comte, Comtesse, and Eloise have been capped. Pg 122
"And the better I knew them, the harder it was to make a sweeping condemnation. They were Capped, they accepted the Tripods and all the stood for, but that did not prevent them from being, as I had seen in the Comte, Comtesse, and Eloise and now in others, warmhearted, generous and brave. And happy."

Will is probably frustrated because although they have been capped they are still really nice and that must confuse him very much. It confuses me too.

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

In the beginning of the book Will asked Jack about being capped. He says "Why what?" "Why should the Tripods take people away, and Cap them? What right have they?" (pg18). Personally I agree with Will. Since that quote was in the beginning of the book I didn't know very much then. Now I realize why the tripods do it. They do it because they want to control society. I learnt that it is easier to control a society that doesn't have much knowledge than a society that is smart and wants freedom.

How will Beanpole help Will and Henry on their journey to the White Mountains?

One of the reasons how Beanpole will help them on their journey is that Beanpole is older and he knows the place better than they do, because he lives there and Will and Henry don't. Beanpole would probably now which way is faster and safer to travel by. As it said in the book on page 69 "Someone whom we already knew to be resourceful, who knew the country and the language. It was almost too good to be true"

Another reason to why I think Beanpole will help them on their journey is because,

I think that Beanpole is going to be quite useful to Will and Henry. Because he can probably speak the men who did speak their language's language. And with Beanpole going with them they can carry more food and their shelter could also be stronger because more people are helping out.

My last reason to why I think Beanpole will help them is because he could help support Will, because of Will's ankle when Will fell down, for Henry called a false alarm on something or someone following them, but it turned out to be some sheep.

And those are my reasons to how Beanpole will help Will and Henry on their journey to the White Mountains.

Why is Will like me???

In Humanities class, I am reading this book called White Mountains. This book is about theses tripods that are about 6 feet tall and have 3 legs. There is this boy called Will and he is about twelve, he is the same age as me. His freedom was going to end soon, just as his cousins Jack had, but if he runs away to the White Mountains then there is a chance for him that he will have some freedom and become a free man. That is what the story basically about.


How is Will just like you?
Well, Will is like me in certain ways. He and I are the same age as I told you before in the paragraph above. He also like me because he is really curious about stuff. I am too, I really enjoy learning about something especially if it really appeals to me. Sometimes I am always asking questions, and my dad gets irritated (sometimes) and just tells me to figure it out by myself. Another reason to why I am curious like him is because he was a little curious about that man Ozymandias. If I met a guy like him in that period of time, I would have been freaked out at first, but then get really curious and want to go back to the Vagrant house and ask Ozymandias many questions.

Another reason to why Will is like me is because we both have cousins that we did not trust and now trust. One of my cousins Darrell, was really naughty. We were always fighting. We did sometimes play together but then we would always wind up bullying each other. One day while we were at a party. It was a caroling party, and it was on the 20th of December. My cousin Darrell and I were playing ( a little roughly ). And then he pushed me and he accidentally fell on my finger while it was straight. I did not cry at first. But when we went to the next house to Christmas carol my finger started hurting a lot. I cried and my auntie gave me some ice to put my finger in. My parents were not there. But when the caroling was over, my auntie took me home and I cried in my parents arms. The next day my parents took me to see a doctor. The doctor examined my finger and told the nurse to X-ray it. When the nurse X-rayed my finger they found out that it was fractured. I had to see a doctor for 6 to 9 months regarding my little finger on my right hand. And since I was right handed it meant that I my writing was really messy. Now me and my cousin Darrell are quite close and we don't bully each other any more because we called a truce after the finger incident. So I am like Will in a sense that we both had a cousin that we did not trust and now trust.

And this are the reasons to why I think Will is like me.