Lit Circles!!! NUMERO DOS!!!

Remember when I did Maroo of the Winter Caves for literature circles? Well now I'm on a new book called "THE WHITE MOUNTAINS" by John Christopher. I'm with one person who is the same in my group from last time and a new student in my group as well. Sanidhya (from my last group), Sam, and Anne W (new student) is in my group this time so it's actually a pretty good combo! The book is about these giant tripods that landed on Earth and took over society and to do so, they capped people to control their minds. Not entirely but my class thinks it has something to do with giving information to the people. My class also knows that when you have all the information in the world, you are in the government, and you also create a religion for your society, you can become a very powerful person. So powerful, that you can control how people think but not manipulating them or hurting them in any way. Those who the capping has not worked for them, they become vagrants but the government and people of towns with vagrants take care of them by giving them one huge house for them to share, and giving them food even though they don't work at all. Will, the main character, is running away to the White Mountains to escape the wrath of the Tripods because everyone wants to think for themselves, right? The Tripods are so powerful because they have information, they created a religion for their people, and they are the government so they control pretty much everything! John Christopher's book was originaly an adult book (the one I'm reading is the children's book) and while we're reading it, we are watching the t.v. show that was based on it called "The Tripods" So I suspect that this book and this trilogy should be very interesting to read if there is a t.v. show based on it.