In this chapter, we learn that the monster is ten-feet tall, weighs about 111 pounds, and can reach a height of three and a half feet. We also learn that this is the time of the Poins' coming of age, and that the family has been preparing for this day ever since. The monster will be defeated, the father says, if the son can learn how to use a killing move. The father says that the only way he can learn to kill is by killing and killing again, and he will find the moves for his son. He says that if he had a second chance to live, he would kill anyone who ignored the truth. But now that he has a son, he says, he will kill those who refuse to listen to him.