How is this passage teaching people about life? Blog Post #4 White Mountians

I think, the passage is teaching people, that they need be their own person and not to let yourself depend on somone or somthing else. In the book's case, Will is talking about the idea, of going against the Tripods and not depending on them to prove that you are an adult. People don't work or get married if they have not been capped because they believe that once you are capped, then you are an adult. Will notices there is something suspicious about them. This is kind of like the saying, "Do not trust, listen, or take candy from strangers." because you don't know what you're really getting into. Will quoted, "What value did courage have, without a free and challenging mind to direct it?" The author didn't just write a book, but it had a meaning to it and that is why it such a good book. They are entertaining, and teaching us at the same time.