Yasith Chapter Summary

On October 15, 2015, we had our first book club conference. Today, we had Yasith as chairperson and we had a delightful conversation about the chapters we have read so far in the book, which are up to chapter four. The people in our group included Me, Yasith, Kushiah, Khai, Kevin, Brendan, and Arshia. Kushiah didn’t manage to finish the chapters on time and was reading as we were conferencing. He still managed to finish minutes later. The rest of us finished and continued with the conference. Yasith led the conversation as he asked us what the brief summary of what has happened to this point of the book. As a group, we found that the story began in a broken ship under the sea. Nailer, the main character, works as light crew scavenging light items such as copper and aluminum. However, one day Nailer was pressured by his boss and his crew and was forced to go into the ship to find the quota. As he was going, he lost his way and fell into an oil pocket. One of his crewmates wouldn’t help him, so he knew he had to do something himself and eventually managed to find his way out himself. However, he was brutally injured.

Yasith, Khai and I described the personality for Nailer which he is the main character and he always tries to persevere no matter what pressure he goes through. Kushiah gave a very descriptive definition of Pima, Sloth, and Bapi. “Pima wields an iron fist but has a warm heart”, as Kushiah said. “Sloth is an evil and cut-throat competitor and will do anything to win.” Kushiah also mentioned how Bapi is described as a rude and mean person, and I mentioned that he is discourteous