What is 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) There are two reasons why I think this theme relates to freedom. One of them is that in this village there is a type of freedom. They are capped and under the control of the tripods but they live quite a good life.They are happy and nice to each other. They don´t have to work all day and they do whatever they want to. When they are about to be capped it shows that the boy or girl is going to be a knight or a lady, which is good. They have a life that is good and everyone is happy about their life. They can also choose who they want to marry and what job they want to have. This is one kind of freedom that they have. The second reason is that when you have real freedom you're not under control at all.The people in the village are capped and under the will of the tripods even if they are happy. The people in the village they aren't allowed to say what they want and they can't think what they want. That's not real freedom. Real freedom is when they can say whatever they want to and not to be under control by the tripods. Like us we think whatever we want and we say whatever we want to but we are not allowed to hurt anyone. We are not under control. That's what real freedom is.