This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line in Shakespeare's "Henry IV Part I" . It's from the play's title, "The Crack in the House." The crack is a reference to the fact that the walls of a house have been knocked down, and the protagonist is forced to run away from the house. He's not sure what to do now, but he does know that he's going to have to fight his way out of the house and into the real world.