This chapter's epigraph comes from the opening lines of the play, which are: "I am the mirror of the heart. Everything that I see, everything that I think, is the thoughts inside of my heart. Thoughts that lie deep within my heart." This is a quote from the play's opening lines, in which the narrator states that he is not a mirror, but an inner world. He tells the audience that he will not allow his brother to go through the same dangers that he has gone through. He says that he does not want to lose him before they get their freedom