But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, nailer faces the most. Breakers book 1 kindle edition by robertson, edward w download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Enter the name of the series to add the book to it. Bacigalupis acclaimed collection, pump six and other stories, and his multipleawardwinning debut novel, the windup girl, established him as one of science fictions boldest new writers. Paolo bacigalupi s ya novel ship breaker is all sorts of awesome.
Theres crew, theres family though, in nailers case, his amphetamine hopped up, violent, abusive father is someone hed rather avoid, and there are the fates. Ship breaker follows the story of nailer, an impoverished child laborer who lives in a world where. Apr 22, 2012 the book initially presents us with the familiar viewpoint of us vs them, with the good guys being the poor ship breakers in bright sands beach and the bad guys being the greedy corporations. Essentially the dystopian conditions that govern society in ship breaker are the result of unregulated capitalism. He and everyone he knows lives out on the beach at the whims of the corporations wholl buy salvage and the many layers of power between them. Ship breaker book burnaby public library bibliocommons. The polar ice caps have melted and new orleans is underwater. Ship breaker book santa clara county library bibliocommons. He and his fellow inhabitants of bright sands beach are dirt poor and work in what is essentially indentured servitude.
This study guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of ship breaker. Everyone has a quota to meet, and everyone follows the same cutthroat rules. Ship breaker book hennepin county library bibliocommons. A very dirty place full of people who have to constantly work to survive. Isbn 9780316056212 plot summary nailer works light crew on bright sands beach collecting copper wire for pay and tries desperately to avoid the wrath of his abusive, addict father. Everything else is contrasted to bright sands beachthe downed clipper ship. I just blazed through paolo bacigalupis ship breaker and i really regret having to leave that world. Despite the storm, dauntless bypasses the teeth, and the pole star gets hung up on the buildings. A vocabulary list featuring ship breaker by paolo bacigalupi, chapters 16.
Ship breaker is a young adult novel by paolo bacigalupi, which details the efforts of the teenaged nailer to secure a living for himself by scrapping ships of light metals. Discuss the role that religion plays in the lives of the characters. Most of the people work as ship breakers, and recieve very little food and pay. By the end of the novel, nailers belief that both intelligence and luck are. Praised by critics and readers alike, now ship breaker has made him one of the young adult fields brightest stars. Nailer is a teenage ship breaker, small enough to crawl into the dark depths of beached oil tankers and strip them of metals like copper that are shipped out and sold. Discussion of themes and motifs in paolo bacigalupis ship breaker. Dec 15, 2010 that doesnt mean i dont like the book. The beach that nailer, pina and the rest of their crew and families call home. Ship breaker races to a final, satisfying and thrilling conclusion. It is where the salvage crews live and the salvage companies. A tarred expanse of sand and puddled seawater, littered with the savaged bodies of other oil tankers and freighters. On the beach, crew is everything and nailer knows it better than anyone. Bright sands beach most of the story takes place on bright sands beach, where nailer and pima live and work as ship breakers.
To create a series or add a work to it, go to a work page. Ship breaker is a 2010 young adult novel by paolo bacigalupi set in a post apocalyptic future. Ship breaker by paolo bacigalupi, chapters 16 vocabulary. Nailer points out errors in the maps and tells them about the teeth, the buildings underwater that ships get stuck on frequently. The book initially presents us with the familiar viewpoint of us vs them, with the good guys being the poor ship breakers in bright sands beach and the bad guys being the greedy corporations. He and his fellow inhabitants of bright sands beach are dirt poor and. Paolo bacigalupi s ship breaker is a science fiction story written for a young adult audience. At the beginning of the book ship breaker, two teenagers with two totally different socioeconomic rankings realize how different their lives really are when they encounter each other. Its located on the gulf coast, and is right next to the remains of. Using the phrase, in this story, loyalty means, discuss the issue of loyalty in ship breaker. Its full of junka tarred expanse of sand and puddled sea water, littered with the savaged bodies of other oil tankers and freighters 1. Working near what was once new orleans sometime in the future, nailer is a member of the light crew, stripping copper from old oil tankers which were grounded when the world ran out of fossil fuel. Jul 31, 2010 what follows is a race to save nita from the clutches of pyce and to grab a chance at a new life away from bright sands beach.
A young scavenger discovers a severely damaged clipper ship with a beautiful woman inside. No matter when you are there you can alsways find people doing this. He comes to rescue a stranded, wealthy girl, and endeavors to bring her to safety. New orleans was placed as geographically accurate as my inexperienced hand was able. Because of a shallow coast many ships find themselves getting stuck.
He rescues nita and goes back to where the story started. The train from bright sands beach to orleans is a metaphor for. I used material from the novel, class discussion, and a modernday map to compose my map of nailers world. From the height of the tankers deck, bright sands beach stretched into the distance, a tarred expanse of sand and puddled seawater, littered with the savaged bodies of other oil tankers and freighters.
The novel was a finalist for the andre norton award and the. I proposed that bright sands beach is located in the modernday florida panhandle, which would make pensacola the teeth. Ship breaker book king county library system bibliocommons. The residents of bright sands beach work in horrendous conditions because anything else would cut into the big companies profits. At some unspecified point in the future, a community of people has sprung up on bright sands beach on the gulf coast where the best work to be found is on crews breaking down giant, rusting wrecks of oil tankers. Like many concepts in the book world, series is a somewhat fluid and contested notion. Life on bright sands beach is brutal and unforgiving, even for young teens like nailer. Nailer has worked, as long as he can remember, as a ship breaker on bright sands beach on the gulf coast. Discussion i thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it. After the hurricane on bright sands beach,a boy who is living in poverty named nailer finds a huge clipper ship which belongs to a wealthy teenager.
Its just that im starting to think that today, 2010, is as good as its going to get. Its located on the gulf coast, and is right next to the remains of a drowned city which is nicknamed the teeth. Its a poor life, but its the only life that nailer knows. On the gulf coast nearby, humanity has reverted to survival mode and a small economy has grown from the scavenging of washed up oil tankers for bits of copper and. The book ends with nailer meeting nita again on the same beach they met. Fear and poverty in ship breaker by paolo bacigalupi. Ship breaker takes place in a highly divisive society.
Soon hell be too big for the work, and then what will he do. Some were completely whole, as if crazy sea captains had simply decided to steer the kilometerlong ships onto the sand and then walked away. Ship breaking is hard work and dangerous, but more frightening is the thought of being without work and left at the mercy of his drug addicted, violent father. When a strong storm brings the wreckage of a clipper ship to bright sands beach, nailer. Nailer is a kid who works on a light crew stripping salvage from the longabandoned oil tankers in the gulf of mexico.
Bright sands beach is the main setting of the novel. The crew of the yacht is dead, drowned in the shipkiller storm that came through the day before. However, nita turns this around by being a nice, likable character and showing us that even the corporation struggle within themselves to do what is right. May, 2010 life on bright sands beach is brutal and unforgiving, even for young teens like nailer. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading breakers book 1. Although life as a scavenger is difficult, it is even harder for people without a crew at bright sands beach.
Everyone has a quota to meet, and everyone follows the. As part of a light crew, he crawls into the smallest crevices and duct work of old oil tankers to rip out wiring and screws to sell for scrap. The life that the author describes for the ship breakers of bright sands beach is similar to that lived by many people today in the coastal regions of several of the worlds poorer countries in south asia, east asia, the arabian peninsula, and the eastern mediterranean. Jul 31, 2017 nailer is a teenage ship breaker, small enough to crawl into the dark depths of beached oil tankers and strip them of metals like copper that are shipped out and sold. The crew of the yacht is dead, drowned in the ship killer storm that came through the day before. Ship breaker takes places in a gritty, grim future, where the divide between the rich and the poor is deeper than ever. The setting in which most of the first story, ship breaker, takes place. Whether within the microsociety on bright sands beach lucky strike is at the top of the heap, sloth at the bottom or the greater global society, life is divided between the haves a. Bright sands beach is where nailer, his father, pima, and the others live and work. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane.
In a futuristic americas gulf coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, nailer works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota and hopefully live to see another day. Fear and poverty in ship breaker by paolo bacigalupi bartleby. Nailer learns to read and he leaves bright sands beach, but rather than changing over time, his ideals of loyalty and success are tested and. Nailer and his crew work here taking aparte ships for money. What follows is a race to save nita from the clutches of pyce and to grab a chance at a new life away from bright sands beach. Nailer is a ship breaker on bright sands beach along the gulf coast in a globallywarmed and resourcedepleted future. It is where the salvage crews live and the salvage companies operate. Ship breaker overview ship breaker is a young adult novel by paolo bacigalupi, which details the efforts of the teenaged nailer to secure a living for himself by scrapping ships of light metals.
On board the yacht is more scavenge than nailer has ever seen and he knows this is his chance out of bright sands beach and a life as a ship breaker. When he discovers a survivor on a grounded ship, he must decide whether to do his job or to rescue her. Everyday, nailer goes with his crew to scavenge for copper in the treacherous condition of the ships, and. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Discussion i thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone who loves science fiction. Complete summary of paolo bacigalupis ship breaker. Nailer is a ship breaker, working with his crew to strip shipwrecked boats for their scrap metal and wires. It would be difficult to say that i enjoyed this book, but i did find it moving and. Nailer learns to read and he leaves bright sands beach, but rather than changing over time, his. The captain realizes that theyre near bright sands beach, and nailer tells them that they can set a trap for the pole star by navigating the teeth, buildings underwater due to the rising sea levels. I want to go back along bright sands beach and revisit all those wonderful people i met that.
Ship breaker book the seattle public library bibliocommons. Sadna is a character in the book ship breaker by paolo bacigalupi she is pimas mother edit she is the bright sands beach medical officer, so to speak edit she saves richard lopez from the storm edit she saves nailer from being killed by blue eyes edit. Apr 26, 2011 i just blazed through paolo bacigalupis ship breaker and i really regret having to leave that world. An important aspect of ship breaker is the role of a pure freemarket system. He lives on bright sands beach with his cruel alcoholic father. I want to go back along bright sands beach and revisit all those wonderful people i met that are struggling through such hard lives. The poor grow up like nailer, a youth who lives in a little shack on a beach off the gulf coast with his abusive, druggedup father. Ship breaker takes place on the gulf coast in a dystopian future, in the general vicinity of presentday new orleans. Ship breaker book tulsa citycounty library bibliocommons. Thats where nailer barely ekes out a living as a ship breaker, crawling among the ducts of abandoned cargo ships and scavenging copper wire.
Recommended for grades 612 science fiction a teenage ship breaker, nailer, works at bright sands beach gulf coast region, taking apart sunken ships that have washed ashore. A boy had died after having become lost within the ducts of an old ship. Environmental studies with ship breaker ups foundation. Many wonder if the people of bright sands beach can survive if they live according to principles. Human civilization is in decline for ecological reasons.
After a huge storm destroy much of the beach, nailer and his crew chief. Bright sands beach is pummeled by a storm so bad that it erases every trace of human presence on the shore, except for the wrecks of ships which litter the sand. Ship breaker is a 2010 young adult novel by paolo bacigalupi set in a postapocalyptic future. Most of the story takes place on bright sands beach, where nailer and pima live and work as ship breakers. The common knowledge section now includes a series field. In a futuristic world, teenaged nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. Paolo bacigalupis 2010 novel ship breaker is the quintessential. In a world ravaged by climate change, nailer is a teenage boy who salvages parts from old tankers. In some cases, as with chronicles of narnia, disagreements about order necessitate the creation of more than one series. The ship sets sail, and while nailer feels alone without tool, the captain takes him to his cabin. On bright sands beach a small beach where nailer, pima, sadna and richard work and live on in these small makeshift shacks sleeping on the ground most of the time eating roasted pigeon.
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