This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous nursery rhyme: "Do I deserve it? Do I deserve having people like me? Do i deserve having them hate me?" . In other words, do you deserve to be loved? Do you deserve people to hate you? Or does she deserve to have people hate her? She's not even half as cute as her sister, and she doesn't even pretend to be cute like her sister does. This is why she's called "little sister cherry" : she has an "alter ego" , and her other personality is just like hers. So she can't really hate her sister because she likes her sister just as much as she does, even though they're not the same person. She compares her sister to a violent child, and then compares her to the previous violent child. She says, "how many alter egos are you have in your total?" , which is like comparing the number of alter egos in a person's life to the total number of people in the world. In this case, we're talking about "uncle klein" . We're guessing that's the guy who