White Mountains-Chapter 4

"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)

In White Mountains freedom is a really important thing-since the whole novel is based on the subject of freedom. 'It was a part of becoming a knight, or of turning from a girl to lady.' I think this sentence shows the difference between child and adult and it shows the great distinction between them. In the particular case of White Mountains, a child is more 'free' than an adult because a child's mind is free, where a adult's mind is capped and held back forever. Since children are free, they have the the privilege and ability to travel to the White Mountains in order to be free forever.

White Mountains~Chapter 6

1. How were the Tripods able to control the 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.

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

Before the book even started, there was gargantuan cities that held thousands and thousands of people, these cities and the people in them were going through what you might call the black age. In this black age, there was famine, murdering, sickness and many other despicable things going around. Because of the food shortage everyone was fighting and scrambling over food, by this the tripods were able to take advantage of these people and take over. When the tripods passed through these massive cities, they trampled on many people shortening the population by many, and fixing the food and other problems. Even though there are thought to be saviors for saving people, but really they weren't. I think this because while they fixed a lot of problems, they killed thousands of people while they were at it. After they took over they were able to keep rule by capping people, so they were able to control people's minds. There is still one place they haven't taken over, THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.

As the question says, Will is comfortable at the castle, but is annoyed and frustrated about the royal family being capped at the same time. When Will found out that Eloise was capped he said, 'My feelings about Eloise herself were also jumbled and uncertain.' Will is confused, mad small of and overwhelmed at the same time, it was new to him that Eloise was capped, he was confused because he had said 'Being stature, I had the habit of assuming that anyone older than myself must be taller, and she was an inch or two shorter than I.' He was confused because he had assumed that 'anyone older that myself must be taller'

White Mountains-How Is Will Just Like Me?

How Is Will Just Like Me?

Will is just like me in many ways. He has a sense of curiosity. 'There are questions in my mind.' This is one of the first statements Will produces when talking to Ozymandias in a safe, unseen and unheard place. By this you can tell that Will is filled up with questions and has no way to find an answer. I am like Will in that way because I am very curious. For example when Mr.Sheflin is explaining a new concept in Math I will think out of the box to find questions that will be extremely useful for a test.

I am also like will in the way that he doesn't want to be held back or caged in. While Will really doesn't want to be capped he still has too. And when there is a rule or assignment that I think is stupid I will probably wait until last minute to complete or I will break the rule. In that sense, we are both sort of rebels because not being capped is definitely against the tripod's law and still Will wishes to do so, and breaking rules is also definitely against the rules.