freedom

Freedom is important in life and without freedom we would have no rights to think what we want and be controlled to what others want us to do and act. In the chapter Will comes to the red tower and has to chose to stay in the red tower and be capped there or catch up on his mission to the white mountains.
Will finds it difficult to understand that that Eloise and others in the castle look forward to being capped as it is what makes them a knight or a princess. They are happy to be controlled as they have not seen the difference between a person who has the gift of freedom and being controlled by the tripods. I think that the author wrote this chapter to let the readers understand how important freedom is and to let them know that some people don’t have the gift of freedom.