Corey's reading goal

2013 Reading Challenge

Corey has not entered the 2013 Reading Challenge.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

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.

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