In two well structured paragraphs explain how the above quote and the rest of the chapter relates to the theme, 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)

I thought that this relates to the theme, freedom because of how life is not interesting anymore without freedom and a challenging mind to direct it with because if you had directions to follow and anymore challenges to approach the human mind, then everything would just be boring and from a kid to now in the book Will starts to have challenges and now he starts to learn that freedom is more important than anything same with challenges to conquer. Will also starts to open up and thinks is this what I want to be doing, labor and being controlled or living in an open freedom spot with everything that I missed out in my childhood that would make my life a happier life? Will decides to escape from the Red Castle and run away at the middle of the life since he thought that even though he would get the girl and have luxury life, he believes that having an open mind and living freely is what he wants to be like.

I thought this also relates to freedom because of how much he has grown during this journey like how much grateful he is now of going on this journey before it is to late and how much Will has gone through those ‘obstacles’ which made me think of Eloise, a tripod chasing him and put a compass and other conflicts that made Will push harder and decide if it was correct to do one way or the other. One of the ‘obstacles’ is Eloise because of how she like him and Will liked her and how when Will wanted to stay until he finds out that the person who was chosen queen, which was Eloise, then she has to go serve the tripods forever which made Will decide to leave the red castle and goes catch up with Henry and Beanpole. These were the two major evidence that made me think that this relates to the scene of freedom.