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.