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.