This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a famous poet, Henry David Thoreau. In the poem, Thoreau asks, "What shall I do? What shall I say? I shall do nothing. I shall say nothing at all. The poem ends with a soliloquy on the meaning of life. It begins, "I am a man, and I am free. I am a free man; I am not a slave, nor a prisoner, nor an animal, but a human being." Thoreau's poem is about a man who is free, but he is not free. He is free because he is a man; he is free only because he has a right to be free.