Themes

Futuristic downfall of new orleans after hurricanes- city killers

Global warming, ocean rises

SURVIVAL!

Everyone works

Bad education

Conflicts

Father’s relationship with nailer p.57

Swanks and shipbreakers

Swanks-rich, live in a different place, mansions, boats, feasts

Shipbreakers- Workers, lower class, shack, scavengers for quota$, No point of living.

Setting

In a dark place

New Orleans in the future

Child labor

Companies run the system

No ruler, king, president

The drowned cities

Symbols

Tattoos/marks-mean who you are and what you stand for

Characters

Nailer- Unknown age(about 15), lucky boy

Nita- Swank, lucky girl,

Richard Lopez- Scariest man on the beach, drug addict, father p.54

Pima- Sweet but tough, 18, black

Sadna- Mother of pima, kindest, mother to nailer

Bapi- boss of light crew, mean

Important/relavant

Different religious ideas

Fates Luck

Scavenge God

Quite dark and gruesome