54 pages • 1 hour read
Ruth WareZero Days
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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Part 10: “Monday, February 13: Day One”
Part 10, Chapter 1 Summary
Jake wakes, and the pain in her side is less than it was. She’s in a hospital bed with Hel in a chair next to her. There are no police, and Jack does not seem to be under arrest. Hel doesn’t know what happened to Cole. Jack slept for more than a day and had surgery to remove a ruptured spleen. Hel says that Jack is all she has, but Jack knows it isn’t true for Hel, though it is for her.
Malik enters and tells them Cole has been arrested thanks to Jack’s livestream of his confession. Jack is no longer a suspect in Gabe’s murder. Cole is likely to go to prison. Jack’s tears finally come.
A nurse enters offering food, but Jack still feels nauseated. He implores her, asking if she could handle a little, “for the sake of the baby” (340). When she tells him she’s not pregnant, he checks her chart and confirms that she is. The hospital workers learned of her pregnancy during an examination prior to surgery and assumed she knew. Jack realizes she must be six or seven weeks along. She recalls the nausea and exhaustion that she attributed to her wound, realizing it was morning sickness. Thrilled by the news, she is ready to eat.
Part 10 Analysis
After Gabe’s death, Jack felt that she had no future. Hel’s assertion that Jack is all she has left seems untrue to Jack in comparison to her situation. Hel has a family, while Jack’s dream of a family with Gabe is lost, or so she thinks. There were clues that Jack is pregnant—most notably the constant morning sickness—but she’d attributed it to her injury and stress. Moreover, she was aware of something tough and strong inside of her that urged her on and made it possible to keep fighting, and now she learns that she had a good reason to keep going: She was carrying the baby that she and Gabe made.
Jack’s story alludes to Jesus Christ in several ways, including her initials and her last name, symbolic of her persecution by authority and her burden of grief. Gabe’s name is biblical as well. Gabriel is the angel who tells Mary that she is pregnant with the child of God, who will be the savior. Gabe played a part in this child’s conception, and the baby will be Jack’s savior, giving her something to live for despite her loss. The angel Gabriel is also the patron of those who work in the fields of communication and telecommunication. Thus, Gabe is a fitting name for Jack’s partner, the man whose communication helped her feel safe. In addition, his discovery will lead Cerberus to patch the security vulnerability he found, protecting thousands or even millions of telecom users.
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