Summer Reading Blog 2

Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacligalupi

Eddie Puisis

       Nailer is the main character in this book and a protagonist he is a hard worker and a fighter. He works as a ship breaker everyday and does what he needs to do to survive he has his good friend Pima who is a loving girl who has always been there for him. Nailer is constantly being abused by his father and sometimes gets into knife fights with him. I have much respect for Nailer because I feel like a lot of kids that get abused either just give up on life or become abusers themselves. But not Nailer; he dreams off being like the rich... Well not exactly because he feels the rich are snotty and don't care about the poor. Or he wants to escape on what is known as a clipper ship and sail out into the ocean. But before he can do that he has to work hard and get lucky. Right now his next goal is to get big enough so he can work with the big crews and scavenge bigger stuff. The theme right now just seems like do anything to survive. Because when living in poverty in a metal shack that seems to be the only goal a lot of these people have.

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Eddie Puisis

          I am reading the book Ship Breaker. This book is science fiction and takes place in the future. In this book the world has run out of oil and the ice caps have melted leaving all coastal cities practically flooded. This is where that main character Nailer lives. He is a scrawny kid who was born into poverty on the southern coast. Although being small isn't all that bad for him. He's able to find work with a crew that scavenged up old ships and since he's small he's the one to go in the small spaces and scrap up anything he can find. Right now Nailer is just trying to survive and doesn't hold many friendships. Except for his one good friend Pima who's always there for him like his mom used to before she died and now he's stuck with his abusive father who is addicted to drugs and alcohol.  Like I said his biggest worry now is surviving but i have a feeling he's going to find something in one of these ships thats going to change his life. This book is like a lot other apocalyptic type books. I read this other book earlier about this father in son traveling alone around the world scavenging for supplies and in one house they find something that changes their lives. That's why I'm guessing Nailer finds something is one of the ships.