Why this book???

I chose Ship breaker as my book for the summer blog for a couple of reasons, One being that the book title seemed as if it was going to have a bit of Mystery in it also it seemed as if it was filled with a little bit of Horror in to it. Another reason is that it was an adventure book and Adventure books are the book that I can't put down in other words they are book that are hard for me to stop reading until I am done reading. Looking at the pre summary of the book I was already engaged with the book. It wasn’t even a minute when I got the book I had already started reading the book and by the time the day ended I had already finished 2/4 of the book. The book from the start was so interesting and it was really hard to get rid of. As I was reading this book the one connection that I found in this book was in a Main Character Nailer, his choice making is similar to mine like we both think for the good of the group that you are in also he has the personality like there should be no man left behind, an example would be when they were going to attack Nailer’s dad, they had sent in a spy to gather some information fo them and when there cover was blown, Nailer had went back to save his friend.

I would recommend this book to the people that enjoy a action pack book. If anyone loved the book Hunger Game by Susan Collins also another book like the Maze Runner then they will enjoy this book. As I said in my different post that this book is just like Avatar, so people who loved the Movie Avatar then they are going to love reading this book.  

Hooking

The part that hooked me as a reader was when Nailer and Pima found the shipwreck by the beach, but it doesn't stop there the interesting part was that the found a girl not just any ordinary girl but a girl who was a daughter to the most powerful man on the land. Her father was also the person that was putting hash rules on the part of the village that Nailer and Pima had been abandoned from. Now as a reader you will stop and start thinking about what will Nailer and Pima do to this girl. Will They Kill her? or Will they return her in for exchange of a reward? Also as you keep reading you find out there are a lot off expensive furniture and artifacts that have been travailing with the ship, also there you find yourself asking a lot of questions like Will they take the artifacts and the furniture from the boat and gain more money? As a reader I was to curious to find out so I had to skip a few parts and reading a head and missing a lot of important facts. This is why I found this section of the book being hooking 

Second Entry

Day 2 of reading and I have completed the book, Yes!!! finally It is such a good feeling, well I guess I will start reading another book, speaking of another book, I am thinking that I will start Posting of my previous book Stolen so stay in tune for that in my next blog. Well back to Ship Breaker, yes I have finished my book but I have not completed my required posing of my book so it might take 1-2 days to finish the entire posting requirement.

After my previous post, we got introduce to Nailer and his friends even more Nailer Lopez, also known as Lucky Boy, is the teenage protagonist of the novel. He works as a ship breaker, tearing apart old oil tankers to scavenge for copper wiring, metal staples, or any other material that can be sold on the market. He's been working this job since he was a young boy, and now, as a teenager, he is getting too big for the work. Although he's small and scrawny for his age, with ribs that stick out from under his clothes, there will always be smaller kids queuing up for his job. Nailer has a few close friends, Pima and her mother Sadna, but since his mother died of an infection, Nailer doesn't have any family to protect him from life on the beach. His father, Richard Lopez, is a violent, abusive drug addict, who doesn't think twice about killing people for profit.

The theme of the book is loyalty and Luck. The two things anyone needs to survive the harsh life on Bright Sands Beach are loyalty and luck. There's big luck and small luck - big luck would be being born into a rich family so that you would never have to work on crew, while small luck would be finding a Lucky Strike, a prize valuable enough to change your life so you never have to work crew again - but the Fates are always willing to dole luck out. Many of the people who seek luck on the island give gifts to the Fates in the hopes that their luck will change, but it is unknown why the Fates choose one individual over another to make lucky. Once the Fates decide to change one's luck, they have to use that change wisely. "If you're just smart or just lucky, it's not worth a copper yard. You got to have both, or you're just like Sloth down at those bonfires, begging for someone to find a use for you" (Page 51). Nailer's first experience with luck is when he falls into the oil pocket on the abandoned tanker. He knows that in this situation, he has to be both lucky and smart if he wants to live. He chooses not to steal the oil and the Fates reward him with his life. Later, the Fates throw luck on his shoulder again by presenting the wrecked clipper ship. Once again, Nailer chooses not to rush for the easy reward. He chooses to let Nita live rather than cash in at her expense. Although it seems that Nailer's luck has run out, the Fates continue to reward him for his loyalty and love. Eventually, he is lucky enough to return Nita to her family and secure a job for himself in the Patel fleet. There are others who have cashed in on their Lucky Strikes - like the man who bears the same name, Lucky Strike - but their luck is finite. Although Lucky Strike is extremely wealthy, he is still confined to life on the beach, with all its depravity and ugliness. Nailer's dreams are bigger than that, and although the money from the oil pocket and the clipper wreckage would have changed his life, money is never what Nailer truly craves. In the end, the Fates reward Nailer by making him truly lucky and giving him his one true dream -- freedom.

So Far....

Day 1 of Reading Ship Wreck so far the The book now is starting to speed up and also I can’t stop myself from reading the book. It is scary how Nailer Father wants to kill his son Nailer, wait I can’t tell u anything with you guys Knowing the Major Character, well here they are:

·         Nailer: a fifteen year old who saves the day like all other books

·         Richard Lopez: Nailer's abusive father.

·         Pima: Nailer's friend.

·         Sadna: Pima's mother.

·         Nita: The sole survivor of a shipwreck. 

·         Tool: A "half-man" and a member of Richard Lopez's crew who helps Nailer.

·         Captain Candless: Captain of the dauntless ship.

Ok so now I can start talking about the book, well Richard wants his son Nailer dead and also he has an army that are not exactly human, which starts to freak me out. The Setting in the book well that is tough to say because, Ship Breaker has a lot of settings which I will name later but the main Setting takes place on the Gulf Coast in a dystopian future, somewhere east of New Orleans on Bright Sands Beach.

The other settings are:

·         The "Teeth": A submerged city that sometimes sinks ships.

·         Orleans II: The second shot at New Orleans after the first one drowned.

·         Bright Sands Beach: A ship breaking beach where Nailer works.

Ship Breaker reminds me of the movie avatar, I know it seems weird but if you look deep into it will make sense like when Jake sully the main Character in Avatar is like the Nita in Ship breaker and Nailer is like Natari in Avatar, because Natari save Jake sully from the dog like animal which is compared to the shipwreck that Nailer Pima Found near the beach. Also the in Avatar Jack Sully helped Natari to kick the Human out of their land and in Ship wreck Nita helped Nailer take down leaders like her father and insure peace for the people.