Literature Circles new #3

The tripods control people with the use of caps. These caps dont really alter personality. Jack is one example. He is different after he is capped and people who dont really know him or just see him dont really notice the difference. uncapped people who dont know him dont see the difference. But Will, who is Jacks best friend notices differences about him. Like jack doesn't talk to Will that much after he was capped. I think that tripods do this because they dont want to scare people who are not capped. If a person was friendly before he was capped and after he was capped he would be mean and inconsiderate, then people who are not capped will think that this is freaky. Then they will not want to be capped and run away. The caps also mesh with the skin. One thing I dont really understand about the caps is that why do they have to shave peoples heads when they are capped why cant they just straighten out their hair and carefully place it on their heads with the hair going through the holes. I dont think that this question will be answered in the book.

Will is frustrated that Comte, Comtesse and Eloise are capped. Here are some quotes from the book. Page 111. The bitter thing was that all the spirit, all the gallantry, was wasted. For even more that their inferiors they accepted and looked forward to being capped. I think that this quote means that even though they look like they have a free spirit, the free spirit that they had was wasted when capped and they were being free through a uncapped mans eyes, Will has knowledge that tells him the truth. They maybe human, They may look free spirited but they are capped and belong to the enemy.

On the first few pages of the book, it says how Will is felling about being capped. It says that Will is felling confused and a tiny bit scared. Much like Jack before he was capped. Then while Jack was being capped, there was many games and when Jack was brought back the feast had begun. It was very fun. Will then had different views about capping. He thought it would be worth it because of all the celebrations that happens after. Then he met Ozymandias. He had told him about the caps, tripods and the black age. Wills idea of capping changed dramatically. Now he is traveling to the white mountains with Henry and Bean-pole. They are now in a French town and Wills view of capping is once again changing. He is seeing Eloise and how she is even when capped. His view has changed so much that now he is thinking of staying at the town and become capped.