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Paolo BacigalupiA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
The inability of people in poverty to rise above their situation is a recurring topic of discussion for Tool, Nailer, and Nita. Nita wonders why the rich don’t help others more in Orleans, and Tool tells her that any help would be wasted; those living in poverty would just consume or destroy whatever they received. Is this view true in Bacigalupi’s dystopian world?
By mid-novel, Nita has exchanged her swank life for the harder life of poverty. At the end of the novel, Nailer exchanges his life of poverty for a swank life as crew on the clipper ship Dauntless. Is it easier for Nita to live in the world of the ship breakers or for Nailer to live as a swank? Why?
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By Paolo Bacigalupi