"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) this quote shows thought of freedom and of choice. When Will got sick and when they took care of him he saw that they maintained a well organized association and that they did their jobs well and serious of what they were doing and they looked after each other, plus making sure everyone was alright and knows what to do. They are brave strong and kind but why do they do this when being capped prevents you from doing it. But since your capped your mind,control of yourself,they take control,and your choices are taken away as you are capped.

Another thing is about being capped which removes everything from you and main thing which is your freedom which is means also choice. So it shows the turning of a child to an adult which represents to them you can manage to become knights and participate in different activities to gain respect from others from what you achieved. But they are capped in which freedom is more in important than luxury. Also everyone their will have a feast and have a capping day but also they cant say anything about themselves or tripods because they are capped. But Will decides to stay put their until he got some sense in his noggin and realizing that freedom is better to what their doing like a luxury.