Nailer, the main character, lives on a beach along with his crew. Nailer and his crew scavenge old, rusty ships for copper wiring to survive. They work day after day to make a quota. Until a huge storm destroys the beach and leaves a clipper ship, a ship for the wealthy, broken and beached. Nailer and Pima, a good friend, search the ship to collect wealth. They find a girl with gold jewelry and a diamond nose ring. She was the only survivor. Nailer spares the girl even though Pima wants to leave her for dead. Nailer and Pima take care of her and she promises them a better life if they help her find her father.
I noticed that Nailer’s perspective changed because before Nailer almost died in a room full of oil he would have killed the girl for her wealth without a second thought. Now, after Sloth, a member of the crew, left him to die because she thought she could smuggle the oil and become rich. Nailer couldn’t manage to do the same and kill the desperate girl and not give her a chance.…show more content… Nailer hopes she will follow through with her blood oath and help him out of the doomed beach. However, Pima is doubting the girl’s reliability.
Quote 1: “Lucky Strike did a lot better than us.” …Nailer spat. “That’s what the pig in the pen says when his brother gets knifed for dinner.” He shrugged. “You’re still in the pen. Still gonna die”
I think that Nailer made the right choice by letting the girl live because otherwise, he may have been rich, but he still would’ve been stuck at the beach. Nailer was looking for a way out because he knew he would’ve ended up the same way as everyone
