summer 4

Of the choice on the list this book got my attention from the odd theme and setting of the book. I have never read anything like this book before so I wanted to read it. Paolo Bacigalupi used a section of action to get my attention at first. He starts with Nailer going through a ship looking for things. He is covered in paint and is having some problems but is dealing with them in his own kind of way. For personal connections, I felt like I coudnt relate to Nailer that much because he live in a dystopian society and I can’t relate to that. His dad is mean, abusive and a drug addict and I can’t relate to that at all. I can relate to his relationship with his best friend tho. His relationship with Pima is a lot like mine with my friends. I value my friends a lot like family. I don’t see my extended family that much, so my friends are like my family. Nailer doesn’t have much family so he is really close his friends. I would recommend this book to anyone that’s wants a good read. It was very interesting and I loved the plot line. 

summer 3

This is the very beginning of the book. “Nailer clambered through a service duct, tugging at copper wire and yanking it free. Ancient asbestos fibers and mouse grit puffed up around him as the wire tore loose. He scrambled deeper into the duct, jerking more wire from its aluminum staples…The LED glowpaint smeared on Nailer’s forehead gave a dim green phosphorescent view of the service ducts that made up his world. Grime and salt sweat stung his eyes and trickled around the edges of his filter mask. With one scarred hand, he swiped at the salty rivulets, careful to avoid rubbing off the LED pain. The paint itched and drove him crazy, but he didn’t relish finding his way back out of the mazelike ducts in blind blackness, so he let his forehead itch and again surveyed his position.” In this quote Nailer is crawling through the ducts of a boat scavenging everything he can. As he looks he is secretly hoping to find oil to get him out of this business. This quote hooked me because it shows how interesting his job is. I have never read anything like this book before so it got my attention. He used an action hook to grab the reader’s attention. 

2nd summer

In Ship Breaker the characters come off to be very simple at the beginning yet can be very complex at the same time. Nailer wants or desires to get out of manual labor. He wants to be part of the heavy crew but he isn’t big enough. He hopes to find a large amount of oil that can get him out of poverty. Nailers dada is a very interesting man in the fact that he is very cold and you don’t know much about him.  After Nailers mother died he became a very angry and abusive man, he became addicted to drugs and isn’t a very good father. Pima is Nailers best friend, they are a lot alike in some ways. Pima is also a scavenger so all she hope to do is find oil and get rich off of it. Most scavengers want to get out of that line of work because it is not pleasant.  Nita is the daughter of a global shipping company. She is the sole survivor of a wreck and is found by Nailer. Nita wants to go home and back to her family. She is very sassy at first but everyone seems to end up liking her. 

1st summer

For my summer reading project I am reading the book Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. Ship Breaker is about a young boy names Nailer, who is a metal scrapper.  What a metal scrapper does is they go around and take copper wire off ships just to meet a quota. This book takes place in the Gulf Cost of America. You might be thinking ‘Well what does is a poor metal scrapper gunna go to save the day’?   

My first prediction was that he was going to become rich and help is family out of poverty. Then I learned about is abusive dad. I rethought what I thought was going to happen and I came the conclusion that he is going to help someone somehow. Other books that are like this book are mainly any other dystopian placed books. It kind of reminded me of divergent in a way that he is just trying to survive in the life that he was put into. He didn’t choose to be a metal scrapper and just try and get by, he was born into that role and his abusive family. Also in divergent, Four or Tobias Eaton’s father abused him and he became a big role in the book.