FREEDOM :P

For White Mountains readers, In Chapter 6, The Castle with the Red Tower, the idea of freedom is explored.

"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 two well structured paragraphs explain how the above quote and the rest of the chapter relates to the theme, freedom.

My first reason why this is related to freedom is because Will starts to think about how it's like to be capped and comparing it with freedom. Will stayed with Eloise because he liked her and she liked him, but then later when Eloise is announced queen she has to be capped and serve the Tripods forever. This gave Will two choices he can stay and be capped or he can run away and be a refugee, but free. He made a dicesion that he wanted to be free because when Eloise said that she was so happy to become queen, to Will he felt betrayed. I think it was a good idea for him to flee the castle and Tripods because he decided to at the beggining and he wants to have his feelings and mind, really he wants to live a free will. If I was Will I would do the same thing.

My second reason is, Will is old enough to figure out new things and how things work around him. I think since he has never seen a granade and technology and stuff, with his journey to the White Mountain he was able to figure out new things and learn more about being capped and the Tripods. This I think will help Will during his journey because he will be able to stop the Tripods and warn the people. This means they can all live a free life and live a new generation. I liked how Will think during the trip, he had recieved a lot of help froom the people around him, he has stumbled upon Zhanpole(Beanpole) which knows the way to the White Mountains, speaks two different language french and english, also likes to invent stuff. With the information from them he was able to get out of trouble easily from the Tripods and the french people. This is a good choice that Will did not only for his life but for a lot of other people's life ven though he doesn't really know that.