Summer Reading Entry 2

During the events of Ship Breaker, Nailer always seems to be in a dilemma. He always needs to choose between two things that he’d rather not. For example, he took this girl from one oil tanker named Nita who apparently is part of another scavenging crew. Nailer’s father lectured him about this and not to do this. Nailer’s father acts a lot more differently than Nailer himself. He’s very violent towards his crew, just not to Nailer. The only thing he may want is to just survive in the different world they’re all living in.

One theme that may be developing in the book is loyalty. When Nailer took Nita from the tanker, this caused so many tensions that weren’t needed. So now, everyone is beginning to question who is with whom so everyone feels uneasy towards each other, and I don’t know who is trustworthy. Now they have to make decisions so there are no costly consequences from the wrong decisions. At first when the book started, it revolved around the main characters and getting to know them. Then it filled in the blanks by telling us what is ahead for the characters and some background information on what happened in the rest of the world. So now, all that happens really just ties towards the end of the structured plot, which is what’s ahead for them to encounter.

Summer Reading Entry 1

      In the book, Ship Breaker, every character is different in its own unique way. At first, when you start reading, you don’t see much because it is all focused in on Nailer, the main character. He’s with his father as part of a ‘crew’ which is a word used to classify a group of people scavenging from crashed oil tankers. Many of the main characters are part of the crew that goes on these scavenging runs. The crew goes on many runs to get a certain material which I’m not even quite sure what it is so they can survive.

     Specifically, they’re on the Gulf Coast when it all happened. Apparently, New Orleans sank to the bottom of the Ocean because the world heated up. This kind of reminds me of Hurricane Katrina when it hit New Orleans. Even though it didn’t completely get destroyed and we rebuilt most of it, it reminded me of past catastrophic events in New Orleans. But I’m not sure if any more of these events has happened so I wonder, have more of these events happened elsewhere in the world? Are the scavengers going to run into something that will cause tension? I’m not sure what will happen, but I think the survivors will clash or fight with another group of survivors.