White mts. #3

1. The tripods placed metal capps on people when they reached the age of 14. However, if their monds were too weak or they were resistent to the capping then the cap would overpower your brain and you would become a vagrant. A vagrant is mentally disabled because of the error in the capping process. They also control people in a way that is very subtle. They limit the amout of knowledge that each person has. In schools they only teach life skills and not knowledge.


2. (Pg 120)Guillaume was their way of saying me name. She had told me that, but she never used it to address me before. My head was spinning a little. Even though i had grown used to the castle and the life that was lived here, it still did not seem entirely real to me. And this talk of kings... There was a king in England, too, who lived in the north somewhere. I had never seen him, nor ever expected to.
She was telling me that I could stay- that she wanted me to stay- not as a servant but as a knight. I could have servants of my own, and horses, an armor made for me so that I could ride in the tournaments, and a place in the family of the Comte de la tour rouge. I looked at her, and knew the she was quite in earnest. I did not know what to say.
(pg 122) They were capped, they accepted the tripods and all they stood for, but that did not prevent them from being, as I had seen in the Comte and Comtesse and Eloise and now in others, warmhearted, generous and brave. And happy.

3. Example a) Was I to abandon my hope of freedom, surrender the mastery of my mind, for the sake of wearing jeweled leather and having other men touch their caps to me? The notion was absurd.
Example b) More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark if defiance against the rulers of the world.