In The Cay, Phillip’s character reveals through many conflicts that he developed independence, confidence, and maturity.
Before Phillip developed independence, Phillip was helpless at the beginning of the novel. This can be shown by Phillip not knowing how to do anything. (Taylor 59). “I knew how helpless I was without Timothy.” Phillip knew this while they were on the island, and he decided to owe it to him being blind because he didn’t know anything. Even if he was helpless at the beginning, Phillip became more brave at the middle of the novel. Phillip’s actions can show how he developed bravery. (Taylor 98). “I think it was the fifth afternoon of this week that I blurted out to Timothy, ‘I’ll climb the palm now’”. This shows how he became
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This is proven several times in the novel. For example, Phillip fights off birds in a confident attempt to get rid of them. (Taylor 118). “I lashed out at it with my cane, wondering why they were attacking me.” Phillip doesn’t show any signs of doubt in this, only puzzlement, and fights them off still. Phillip also shows confidence by climbing a palm, even though it frightened him. (Taylor 98). “I grasped it, hunched my body, placed my bare feet on the rough trunk, and began to climb.” Phillip does this and shows confidence because it was something that scared him. Before developing this, Phillip was unsure of almost everything at the beginning (Taylor 77). “As yet, I didn’t have the courage to climb the palms.” This shows how he wasn’t keen on doing things even for their benefit, and was unsure of anything. Despite this, Phillip was able to develop determination in the middle of the novel. For example, Phillip was open to do new things. Like, actually making things despite the fact that he thought he couldn’t do it. (Taylor 73). We were asleep on the palm mats that I’d made, but it awakened us immediately.” Phillip made these mats, showing how he started to try things, and how he started to become determined to finish something. Phillip overall developed confidence after everything he had to
People’s character changes over time from certain events in their life.In The Cay, by Theodore Taylor, Phillip is the main character, and faces many challenges throughout the novel. Phillip’s character reveals that through trial and tribulation, a once childish person can become caring, brave and independent.
The novel The Cay has a main character named Phillip that gets stranded on an Island alone with an old man called Timothy. Through the experience that Phillip goes through, his character changes from a little brat to a mature adolescent. In The Cay, Phillip’s character reveals that through many conflicts, he developed gratefulness, love, and independence.
When they first come to the Island Philip is dependent of timothy and doesn’t want to work because he is blind stated by him in the novel. ”I just wanted to sit and think. I didn’t want to work. I said timothy I can’t work I’m blind”. Page 70 in the novel. Then when Timothy almost died of malaria so Timothy trained him to to rely on himself. Phillip starts being independent of Timothy when he carves a crane for philip so he can move around the island and also attaches vines to each side of the island so philip can walk back and forth from the hut.In chapter eleven is when philip says ” Timothy fashioned a cane for me and I was now using it to feel my way around the island ”.” I was starting to be less dependent on the vine ”. While still dependent on timothy he started to be less being able to walk without him and the vines. To test if Philip was now independent of Timothy he had to climb a tree blind. When he first went up to it he had stop and
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