Essay Questions

What is Jack’s relationship with women?

Jack’s third murder involves his girlfriend and her two sons, whom he shoots on a hunting trip. He then forces her to have a picnic with their corpses. He later kills her as well.

Jack’s fourth murder is centered around his girlfriend, Jacqueline, whom he regards as being too simple for his tastes. He begins to behave weirdly around her and marks her breasts with red circles, before proceeding to chop them off. He leaves one of the breasts in a policeman’s car, and keeps the other in his wallet.

What happens at the end?

When he has finished recounting the murders to Verge, they have arrived at pit leading to the ninth circle and centre of Hell. Jack attempts to avoid Hell by taking a staircase away from it but instead he falls into an abyss.

How does Jack enter Hell?

The final murder involves him trying to kill five men with one bullet. He realizes that he does not have the appropriate ammunition so visits his friend, SP, who tried to call the cops on him. He kills SP and escapes to his warehouse with the freezer. When he gets there, he sees Verge, who tells him he has been observing Jack. Jack proceeds to build a house out of all the dead bodies he has accumulated before following Verge into a hole that leads to Hell.