In the novel Ship Breaker by Paolo Bagulucipi, Nailer is a strong young man who has no education because of his lifelong job of ship breaking. In Nailer’s job of ship breaking he scavenge ships for items like copper wire to earn money to survive. Nailer and his dad does not have a strong relationship. Nailor is taking more care of his dad then his dad does for him like buying him beer and providing for the family. Nailor’s loyalty changed over time because of his dad behavior and crew members even though he is more loyal to his four crew members than he is to his father.
Nailer’s loyalties relies more with his crew members than it does with his own father. Richard and his crew take Nailers crew hostage. Nailer sees that Nita is out of luck so he has to think fast to save her. Nailer begins attacking blue eyes and Sadna started to help him. He tries to help Sadna and kills blue eyes in the process. He betrayed blood blue eyes for one of his crew members but Nailer wouldn’t have never had to do this if Richard never betrayed him. …show more content…
Nailer is a good addition to ship breaking because he’s able to go into small places. While scavenging a ship with former crew member (Sloth) he falls into a tank of oil. Nailer is trying his hardest to survive and not drown in the oil while Sloth is just watching. Eventually, she leaves Nailer so she can make more money. He is betrayed by Scloth even though he does eventually makes it out the pit of oil. Since he was betrayed he dropped sloth off his crew. Nailer is no longer loyal to Sloth so he leaves him hanging dry without a way to make