For summer reading I have chosen "Ship Breaker" By Paolo Bacigalupi. The main setting of thios book is a post apoclyptic story where oil is scarse and crews of people have to strip shipwrecked ships doen to its bare parts to send them off. The main protagonist in this story is Nailer. He works on the light crew which mostly is comprised of children and teens. It is set this way because they are tasked with stripping metals such as copper wire from the boats to make quota. Another character is Bapi the boss of the light crew. He is known for being hard on his workers and sometimes abusive. On the Linghty crew is Prima the boss when Bapi is not around. She is in charge of keeping everyone in line and she does it well. Everyone in the crew respects her and dosen't dare to disobey her because they know she'll deal with them. Later on in the book We are introuduced to another character Nita (introduced as lucky girl). In the social pyrimid in this story she is sitting at the top, with everything she could every want/ask for. But when a hurricane rolls through her boat is left stranded on bright sands beach (where this novel takes place). And she is the only survivor but just bearly untill Nailer and prima find her and save her.
As to where this will go I predice that some way atleast nailer will find a way to leave with Nita as she can give him a better life where he dosent have to worry about his high drunken father beating him, or having to make quota in the wrecking yards.
Sofar my question for this book is How did the world end up like this. What event triggered this book where people arer stuck on a beach/island like this and have to tear apart ships on a daily basis. I know this is set in a world where oil has run our but I want to know what caused thiss in the first place.
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