Letter To John Christopher........

Dear, Mr. Christopher
 I have been reading your books about the tripods and I have enjoyed reading it. Although I have only read the first part of the trilogy, I have some questions to ask you. Where did you get the idea of tripods capturing humans? Where did you get the idea of vagrants? What inspired you to write this book? At the end of the trilogy, will Henry, Beanpole and Will get rid of the tripods and make them leave the earth?
 Even if I still have these questions I have enjoyed reading the book. I liked the part when you said that Will   was picked up by the tripod  and was going to be capped. I was a bit shocked while reading this line because then I was started doubting wether Will would be able to reach the White Mountains or not? I have still read only the first part of the trilogy. I look forward to reading the rest of the trilogy!!!!!

Thank You for spending your time reading this.

Sincerely, Nikhil Gauba

FREEDOM!!!!!!

"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?" (p. 111)


This paragraph from chapter 6 is the best quote I can explain  to you why freedom is important in life. 
 
In this chapter big and strong knights serve their lives to the tripods to control them. If they would have not given up their life to the tripods they could have used their own brain to invent new things. By serving their lives to the tripods they now can't do anything new and they can not also lead their own life by themselves. The tripods will control them after capping them and force them to do whatever they want.

To be free in life we need freedom. To get freedom we need to fight all the things that are stopping us to do whatver we want. Also in the book Will, Henry and Beanpole are going to be capped but to lead their own very life they are trying to remove all the things that are coming in their journey to the White Mountains.