In humanities we are really close to finishing the book White Mountains just the last two chapters and we will be done. We were told to write/explain about a quote on chapter 6 and the quote is on page 111. The quote says: "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?" This is my first reason, this quote relates more to freedom. What the author is trying to say in this book is that there is no freedom. Maybe at first they will have a bit of freedom but then at the end they will get capped and they will be total slaves to the tripods. Will and Henry think that they will not get capped because they are going to the White Mountains and that they tripods will not be able to find them there. That will not be true the tripods might find them or they will just run away to another place which they think that the tripods can't find them, but the tripods can find them. Also both of them thought that they will have freedom and that they will be knights solders and people like that, but in real life they won't get a chance to be like that because they won't have freedom once they get capped.
I also have my second reason which is when Will get taken care off when he was sick. When he was in The Red castle he was really happy for some reason. He thought that hes life was changed after he escaped from the tripods. The tripods were really close to catching Will and Henry but then they escaped and they were really happy. I think that they were really lucky that they escaped from the tripods. Will was thinking of getting capped but then he didn't but maybe at the end he might just make up his mind and will get capped. Those are my two reasons.
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