If I’m Going to Go Through Hell, There Should at Least Be Some Bacon

If I’m Going to Go Through Hell, There Should at Least Be Some Bacon is the title of chapter 14, setting an irreverent, material counterpoint to the emotional strain that opens the chapter. Its humor rests on the gap between the scale of “hell” and the modest comfort of bacon; the chapter’s opening immediately places that comic phrasing beside genuine distress.

Form and Meaning

The title turns hardship into a setup for a small, tangible consolation. It does not present bacon as an event or object in the scene that follows; instead, the contrast in the wording gives the chapter a wry frame, making ordinary comfort imaginable even against overwhelming trouble.

Placement in the Narrative

The preceding scene leaves Ava reckoning with the collateral damage of what she has asked of Lock, the drove, and Ryan. She rushes outside, where Lock finds her sobbing beneath an oak and offers her a handkerchief. The chapter title’s joking promise of bacon thus precedes a scene that is not carefree: its levity sits against Ava’s remorse and breakdown, while Lock’s small act of care supplies a concrete, immediate comfort.