This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in the novel's first chapter. It's a line from a poem called "A Tale of Two Cities." It describes a scene in which two cities are at war, and one of the cities is at war with the other city. The poem describes a battle between the two cities, and the poem ends with the poem's title line: "A tale of two cities" . This is the title of the first chapter of the novel, and it's the same title that's on the cover of the second chapter. The first chapter ends with a battle in which the city of New York is victorious. The second chapter begins with the battle between New York and Los Angeles. The city of Los Angeles is victorious because it has the most powerful city in the world. It also has the largest population of people in the U.S.