![]() ![]() Jack then tells of a visit he made four years ago to stay with an aunt, and tells of a ruined city he saw by the edge of the sea, a city at least twenty times as big as their village of Winchester. “And things like the Watch were made-by men, not the Tripods.” (13) There were too many people and not enough food, so that people starved and fought each other, and there were all kinds of sicknesses, and…” I had, from time to time, but it was another subject on which speculation was not encouraged, and Jack had never talked in this way before. said, “The Watch…do you ever think what it must have been like in the days when things like that were made?” Will has his father’s watch, one of only five timepieces in their entire village. The cap suppresses curiosity and creativity, leaving the recipients placid and docile.Īs The White Mountains opens, thirteen-year-old Will and his cousin Jack are discussing life before the Tripods came, before Jack’s upcoming capping. To control the populace, all humans are “capped” on their fourteenth birthday: their head is shaved and a metallic cap is applied to their head. ![]() In the not too distant future, Earth has been taken over by aliens (later identified as “Masters”) who travel about in large metal tripods. ![]()
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