The Tripods - Summary and Questions Answers

The Tripods Summary:

The Tripods had been rules of the Earth for more than a hundred years. They governed simply and effectively by dominating the minds of men. They capped every one at the age of fourteen . The caps used by the tripods were meshes of silvery metal fitted closely over round the skull moven into the very flesh wears. The capping of child took place at the age of adulthood with a ceremony.

The story of the tripods has been described in the language of a boy who belonged to the tripods. He was doubtful about the process of capping when he saw the capping process and ceremony of capping of his own cousin Jack , the became anxious about his capping which was being done the following year after the ceremony of his cousin.

When Ozymandias who was a red haired man told the boy that the tripods were actually the enemies of men and they ruled the whole planet earth. Very few people survived on earth found in a few places. He also told the boy that he knew such free.

The Tripods - Question and Answers

Q.1_ What do you know about the Tripods?

The tripods were the group of people with metals caps on the heads of men and women. hey used to thought by metal capping they were able to dominate the minds The tripods with their strange thoughts ruled the earth for more than a hundred years.

Q.2_ What is one of the changes in behavior mentioned in the passage that show one is becoming an adult?

When a child came at the age of fourteen in the tripods. They capped the child on head with a ceremony. They thought it would produce changes in the child and the child start thinking about oneself.

Q.3_ Why did no one ever raise the question of whether capping was right or wrong?

Capping was a tradition in the tribes of the tripods. The capping of children took place as a tradition with a ceremony so no one ever raise the question of whether capping was right or wrong.

Q.4_ What had probably caused the ruin of the great cities?

The great cities of ancient times had probably destroyed due to some natural calamity such as earth quakes, floods or some other natural factor. The great old cities were also destroyed due to the bloody wars between the old nations.

Q.5_ Why did the boy dislike the process of capping in the tripods?

The boy did not like the process of capping in the tripods. He was doubtful abut the process of capping. When he met a tramp named Ozymandias. He become more hostile the tripods.

Q.6_ Who was Ozymandias? What did he tell about the tripods to the boy?

Ozymandias was a vagrant who lived in a small village where the boy was also lived. He was actually a wanderer who had visited many places. He told the boy that the tripods were the actual enemies of men and they ruled the while planet of earth. He told the boy that he knew some people who lived on white mountains and they were free from the domination of the tripods.

Q.7_ Who were vagrants and what was their social status in the tripods?

The vagrants were those people for whom copping had not worked properly. Their minds  had refused to accept the conditioning of the tripods and in refusing they had been broken from the society of the Tripods. They wandered from place to place, never resting long and were looked after but pities and disliked by normal capped men and women.

Q.8_ Why did the boy become interested in the vagrants?

The boy was very doubtful about the tripods and their process of capping. He had many question about the way of living in the tripods, Therefore he became interested in the group of those people who did not like tripods and was called as vagrants.

Q.9_ Why did the boy incline towards a man? Describe the description and meeting of him with the boy?

The boy was more interested in vagrants particularly in the one who called himself Ozymandias, a big red aired red bearded man who sang strange songs, and spoke lived of poetry and mixed sense and non sense when he talked. The boy invited him to come to the den which the boy and his cousin Jack had made outside the village where he met the boy and told him a strange story about the tripods.

 

Q.10_ What strange story did Ozymandias tell the by about the tripods and their process of capping?

Ozymandias told the boy that the tripods were enemies of men no benefactors. They were the invaders perhaps from another world, and how through capping, mind which were just be giving to think fr themselves were sub dues and harnessed to the worship of their oppressors. He told the boy too, that although the tripods ruled the planet, there were a few places where free man survived.

 

Q.11_ At what age and how the process of capping was done in the tripods?

The tripods capped every male and female at the age of fourteen. the caps used by the tripods were meshes of silvery metals fitted closely around the skull moven into the very flesh over their wearers. The capping of a child took place at the age of adulthood with a ceremony.

Q.12_ How did the boy reached the white mountains?
 

The boy managed to escape from the place of tripods with his cousin Henry and reached the France where the third companion Jean Paul joined them. They travel and endured many difficulties even killing a tripod and at last they reached the white mountains.

Q.13_ How was capping done and what was it's purpose?

 

The tripods capped every male and female at the age of fourteen. the caps used by the tripods were meshes of silvery metals fitted closely around the skull moven into the very flesh over their wearers. The capping of a child took place at the age of adulthood with a ceremony. The capping was done for the domination on the minds of people.

Q.14_ Who were the vagrants?

The vagrants were those people in the tribe "The tripods" from whom the capping was not done properly. Their minds had refused to accept the conditioning of tripods and in refusing they had been broken from the society of the tripods. They wandered from place to place, never resting long and and were looked after and disliked  by normal capped men and womens.

Q.15_ What did normal people think about the vagrants?

Normal people in the tribe"the tripods" weere those who were capped. It was the custom of the tripods that they fixed a metal caps on the head of their children at the age of fourteen. Those metal caps remained in their heads for their rest of their life. The capping on their heads didn't worked properly and they remained without metal caps on their head, so the normal capped people did not liked them.

Q.16_ Give the description of 'Ozymandias'?

Ozymandias was vagrants who lived in small village. He was a red-haired men and also kept his beared red on his face.He usually sang songs and spoke lines of poetry. He often mixed sense with nonsense whenever he talked to other.

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