10th Grade Summer Reading #4

I read this book instead of the rest because this book seemed like it would be interesting. The cover really caught my along with the title when I was looking through the options. Most of the other novels seemed to be romance novels by their name and I am a man, I can't be reading romance novels. Also I was to lazy to go into depth and look up the other books so I just picked this one. I enjoyed it actually. I made some connections to the characters, like with Nailer, we both would pick the morally correct answer and go with the right choice when faced with a problem. I would recommend this book to those who like reading future dystopian society books like Hunger
Games and Divergent where the rules of the world are different than they are now.

10th Grade Summer Reading #3

A section in the book that is for hooking the reader into the story is at the beginning of the story when  he fell into a pocket of oil inside the ship when the duct he was crawling in have in from underneath him. He found a doorway out and opened it before he was sucked into the black sludge and died. "He smashed into water. Sea salt swallowed him. The surge and swell of an oily sea. The roll of breakers. Nailer surged upward, kicking for the surface. Broke out into sunlight and waves, gasping. He sucked air, flooding his lungs with shining clean oxygen, starved for all the life he'd been sure he'd lost." This  passage was that after he opened the door he was sucked into it with the oil he was neck deep in. He was submerged in the oil for a long time and he was close to drowning but when he met fresh air when the oil stream carried him out he was submerged the ocean but he kicked upwards and was able to breathe again. He was close to death. This hooks you on the story because the imagery provided a good sense of what was happening and you could picture it perfectly. It also has a good plot line because the problems he goes through, everything seems lost but he overcomes it in a miraculously.

10th Grade Summer Reading #2

Nailer'a desires is to get rich and get out of the slums he is living in, tearing apart ships. There is also a side to him that's wants him to do the right thing and save Lucky Girl from her crash. His desires are torn half and half. Both could lead to a prosperous future but if he saves the girl, he could be taking a risk and get fired from the only job he could have and have no hopes of living. On the other hand he has a safe and secure way if getting rich. Lucky Girl's desires are to get home after her family was killed in the storm that drove them ashore. She is set on one thing unlike Nailer but her fate relies on Nailer. Pima is set on getting rich from tearing apart the ship she found with Nailer. She is more of the antagonist against Lucky Girl. Though Pima doesn't know Lucky Girl is a survivor on the ship. Themes that are appearing is that you should help another person if they are in need instead of selfish desires. Another is don't let other peer pressure you into doing what you don't want. Though later Pima does discover Lucky Girl and goes along with saving her. She goes from be antagonist to protagonist. The book is structured through Nailers perspective in 3rd person. It follows Nailer and what is happening to him. The story goes from what is happening at the wreck to Nailers job at tearing apart the ship.

10th Grade Summer Reading #1

The book I am reading for my summer reading project is a book called Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. This book is about a boy named Nailer who is a small boy who lives in a future dystopian society where oil is scarce and so are metals such as copper and steel. He works as a poor boy who has to tear apart and scavenge these things from ships that are rusted over and are beached ashore. There are two types of crews that year apart the ship; Nailer works in a light crew which are usually small people and children who aren't big and bulky. The light crew goes through the ducts of
The ship and around the outside scavenging some lightweight stuff like copper wire. The other crew type is heavy crew, which rips apart the heavy stuff like the metal plates on the outside of the ship. The main conflict is that after a giant storm hit the beach they were working on, a clipper, which in the novel is a very fast boat made from the scraps from the beached ships they were tearing apart, is run ashore. Inside the ship is a lone survivor which is a wealthy girl who won't tell Nailer her name. Nailer decides to name her Lucky Girl because she was the only survivor of her ship. Nailer must choose to tear apart her clipper ship and become rich but betray the girl of ever getting home or save the girl who may lead him to a better lifestyle later. This book reminds me of other future dystopian societies like the hunger games which the government is bad and cares only themselves. The main characters of the book are Nailer who is a small but nifty boy who is torn whether he should betray or save the wealthy girl. The next is Lucky Girl who is the survivor of the clipper that crashed; she is nice but isn't outgoing and doesn't like to say what's on her mind. The last is Pima who is Nailers light crew boss. She tries convincing Nailer to tear apart the ship