This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in the novel's first chapter, "The Return of the Jedi" . It's a quote from a famous author, William Faulkner, who wrote "The Sound and the Fury" : "The sound and the fury are the two great forces of nature, and the only thing that can stop them is a man's will." In other words, the only way to stop a man from killing himself is for him to kill himself. In this chapter, however, it's the other way around. The protagonist is about to die, and he's about to be killed by his own creation. He's not going to let anyone else kill him, so he'll kill himself first. First, though, he wants to make sure that no one else has seen his face. He wants no one to see that his face is covered in blood. He also wants no other person in the room to see the face of his enemy, the white man, because that's what the white servants are supposed to do. The white servant tells the protagonist that everyone has allowed him to have his way in the past, but now that white wood is covering him, they're going to have to let him have his own way, too. He says that he and the protagonist grew up in the same kind of situation, and that theirs is the same situation for everyone. They're both "disastrous" children, he says, and they've both grown up in situations where they didn't know what they were doing. They both grew up "in disastrous oh right," he says. He doesn't understand why the white servant threw the rock at him, but the protagonist is confused. He can't figure out who the rock is, and