Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.
- In Ship Breaker, how does Nailer's definition of family change throughout the novel? What events cause these changes?
- How would the story change if Nailer were a girl and Nita were a boy?
- Rank these characters—Nailer, Pima, Nita, Tool, Sadna, Richard Lopez, Captain Candless—from most moral to least moral based on what they say and do in the novel. Explain.
- To what extent is the world Bacigalupi imagines and creates fiction?
- How might Sadna decide a human's worth? Tool? Nita? Richard Lopez? What makes you say this?