This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem tells the story of a young boy who is brought up in a poor family in a small town in Maine. The boy grows up to be an important part of the community, and he is sent to live with a wealthy uncle. The uncle is a powerful man, and the boy's father is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.