This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem, "Alone in the Forest," is about a young man who has lost his way and is now alone in the forest. The young man, who has been orphaned by his father's death, is now adrift in the woods, alone and alone. He has no friends, no family, and no place to go. His only friend is his father, who is still alive and well. He tells the young man that he is his only friend, and that he will be the one to take care of him when he dies. This is the beginning of the end of the poem, and it is a foreshadowing of the events that will unfold in the rest of the novel.