The White Mountains 3rd blogpost

The tripods control people by putting these metal caps on their head. The tripods only control their actions, therefore, they cannot control their emotions, feeling, etc. But still, when some people are capped, they can still be kind like Eloise in the story. The evidence from the novel is "But not Eloise. I had thought her free, like myself. I might even have come to the idea-its beginnings,I think, were in my mind already- that when we set off once more for the White Mountains, there might not be three of us, but four. All this was rendered futile by the sight of her bare head. I had come to think of her as my friend:perhaps more. But now I knew that she belonged, irretrievably,body and soul, to the Enemy" this was the evidence. Well, Will doesn't feel comfortable about being capped, and thats why he is going to the White Mountains. So, the evidence to show how Will feels on being capped is : "I was sorry at the thought of leaving her,and my father,and of their unhappiness when they found me gone. The Caps offered no remedy for human grief. but I could not stay, any more than a sheep could walk through a slaughterhouse door, once it knew what lay beyond. And I knew that I would rather die than wear a cap."