This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem, "Invisible Man," is about a man who escapes from a prison by hiding in the woods. In this poem, a man escapes by hiding under a pile of firewood. The man, who is named Nemo, is the protagonist of the story. Nemo is a young boy who has been orphaned by his mother. He has been sent away to live with Nemo's father, who has died. The boy's name is Nemo, and the protagonist is named after his mother, who was kidnapped by the French during the French occupation of China in the late nineteenth century. The protagonist, Nemo, tells his father that he has escaped from the prison and has gone to the woods to find Nemo. Nemo asks his father why he hasn't told him about his escape. His father replies that he