![]() ![]() And when Captain Candless asks Nailer why he's going to be searching for Nita, Nailer explains: ![]() People like Sloth.īut Nailer has this lever (read: the ability to shift out of self-preservation mode and help someone else), so when he and Pima are trying to decide whether to kill Nita and scavenge her ship, he empathizes with Nita's plight and thus saves her life. Some people couldn't see any farther than themselves. Or maybe the lever hadn't been there after all. He'd been so desperate to get Sloth to care.īut he hadn't been able to find the lever. This is totally different from his dad and a few other characters in the novel. ![]() Guided by a moral compass he didn't think he had, Nailer consistently tries to do the right thing. Nailer and other characters think a lot about Nailer's motives for making the decisions he does throughout the novel. Nailer spends much of his time with his best friend Pima and Pima's mother Sadna, who function as his surrogate family. Nailer's mom died an indeterminate amount of time ago, and his dad, a violent man who drinks and gets high all day, only grows more terrible. Nailer is an adolescent ship breaker who works on light crew, crawling in the smallest places of old oil tankers to strip the ships for parts. ![]()
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