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