How were the tripods able to control the people?
In the book The White Mountains the Tripods control the people how, you ask? Well when you get to a certain age of 13-14 you get taken up inside the stomach of one of the huge gigantic Tripods and they place a small metal brain-washing cap on your skull which allows them to take control of your brain, so controlling what you say and what you do around other people. The cap is made out of hard shiny metal, so to put in on your head, you have to shave your cool hair off then they place it in and then the hair grows back so you don't see the metal cap so much. I am happy that we don't get capped now because even though your hair grows back I wouldn't want mine to be cut off.
Find evidence that Will, even though he is comfortable in the castle he is still frustrated about the capping....
I burst out:"you must not! I won't let it happen." "come away with me" I said "We'll go where there are no tripods. Come away now" This shows how mad and frustrated Will was when he found out that Eloise would have to go off and serve the Tripods and never return. Will was so caught up with his happy life living there, that when he heard she was being taken away from him, he realized that the reason he had run away from home was because he did not want to be capped but now it was brought up again, he is frustrated because he feels, it ruins everything and every ones life. I do think that one thing that really ruins a boys life when they get capped is that they don't have the freedom with what they can say to each other. Like they can't speak about what it is like when you are capped. When Will was in his fever he was talking without knowing it and told all his secrets to the Comtesse about Henry & Beanpole and also how he felt about being capped. When Will pulls Eloise' turban from her head it shocks him and again reminds him about being capped. He had hoped she would go with him to the Mountains and was thinking she would not go through with it because she was his friend but then it was a big shock for him and he suddenly realized she already belonged to the enemy. "I turned my head away, in shame" The Comtesse said, " it does not matter. Will, look at me." (page 107) This is another part where it shows Will's frustration toward capping because the Comtesse was talking about capping and it said Will hid his head in shame so I think it shows that Will feels like OK well this is bad I should be capped because everyone else is but I think deep down Will is mad that capping does exist.
Find evidence (quotes) to show how Will feels about being capped....
"Jack," I said, "I've been thinking." He waited without much interest. "Of what you said-about the wonderful things that men made before the Tripods." (page 18). I think this shows how Will feels about being capped because before Jack had been capped he was the one saying this that capping doesn't sound fun and Will was kind of against it in a way like "we have to be capped there is nothing else we can do there is not another choice" but now Will does not want to be capped he wants to live a free life and do what he wants but now his cousin Jack has told him that it was just nonsense and you have to be capped. It is like they change bodies or something because they both just changed. When Will was living in the castle he was thinking about how the people there lived, how their lives were different from Wherton and that they looked forward to being capped. He said it was like becoming a knight or a girl becoming a lady and he questioned "what value did courage have" if they didn't have a free mind to direct it. "Knowing fear as I have never known it before and screaming, screaming...." When Will came round he remembered that feeling and wondered whether he had dreamt it all then he shuddered when he realized it had been real. He felt his head and there was no cap, he felt relief and nauseous that made him pause and draw breath - he thinks he is ok.
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