ThE eNd Is HeRe! TRIPODS!

In the book "Tripods and The White Mountains," Henry starts out as a sort of mean, unusual character. The first time we meet him in the story he basically attacks Will for no reason, other than the fact that they 'always' fight. This definately gives you the impression that he is not a nice person, at all, and you really DON'T like him. Throughout the story though, he goes from being an utter bully, to quite a nice kid. After Will meets Ozymandias, and decides to leave to go on his journey to the White Mountains, Henry decides to follow him and go along with him. This is the first turing point in his character. Henry slowly starts being nicer, and warmer towards Will, but quite subtly. Henry didn't fight with Will quite as much, or even at all, and i think this is the first step in Henry's character change. Just the fact that Henry would want to go along with Will on a journey is a pretty big step in his change in character because I don't think the old Henry would want to even think about going somewhere on a journey with Will.

My opinion of this book is that it is kind of boring and it has too many big points in the story, so your kind of confused as to which part is the climax. Some of the big parts are when Will leaves his home, or when they get captured and they have to escape from a holding room where they meet Beanpole, or when Will gets hurt and they stay at the castle, or when they are hiding from the tripods underneath the rocks just as they were about to get to the White Mountains. As you can see there are a few too many part in the story that you could count as being a climax, and, since the story is not very long, there shouldn't be that many. Otherwise I think the author used some good techniques and great vocabulary which I found quite interesting. I think the concept of the tripods is good and overall I think that it was a good story idea and the author wrote it quite well.