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The Cay is a novel by Theodore Taylor. The book’s plot revolves around a twelve-year-old boy, Phillip, who, although American-born, is living on the Caribbean isle of Curaçao due to his father’s job with an oil company. However, World War II is raging, and Phillip leaves the island aboard a steamer with his mother. The steamer is torpedoed by a Nazi German submarine, and Phillip is rescued by an elderly West Indian named Timothy, who pulls him aboard a life raft. The two float to a deserted cay
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the characters and describe them: Phillip Enright is an eleven-year-old boy who lives in the island of Curaçao with his family during 1942. After a shipwreck in the boat SS Hato he is separated from his family and is washed ashore on a cay with Timothy, and Stew the cat. While he is in the rescue raft he becomes blind due to an incident. After being rescued from the cay and he returns to Curaçao, then Phillip spends a lot of time talking to the black people of the island because Timothy was his friend
civilization after being in one precarious situation to the next. Phillip, who is the main character, changes his ways and views through the book thus making him a dynamic character. After leaving his homeland in VIrginia, Phillip is forced to live in Curacao with his family where he must adapt to his new environment. Just as he settles into his new home he must travel back to Virginia, and while on the trip back, things take a turn for the worse. He is stranded, and must find help or civilization with
Children have no control over the parameters of their birth. Thus, it is important for children to have a good understanding of different cultural orientations and racial diversities so they can embrace the positive implications of being different. When children are taught different cultures, they gain an appreciation for their own. Novels such as The Cay by Theodore Taylor help children appreciate racial and cultural diversity, promote the understanding that members of the human family have more
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The Cay Response to Literature Essay The Cay is a novel by Theodore Taylor in which the main character is presented with racial relations and the subject of war when World War II comes to his small island of Curacao. Being a boy of almost twelve, Phillip’s outlook on these subjects is greatly influenced by his parents and his ignorance of the realities. When the book first opens his perspective on the topics of racism and war are very different than the reality of things. In a way Phillip
experiencing blindness as evidenced in the novel when he was able to survive by himself on The Cay after Timothy’s death. At the beginning of the novel, Phillip responds with stubbornness after arguing with his parents about not wanting to leave Curacao. Phillip’s mother
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"In Theodore Taylor’s The Cay (1969), Phillip Enright, a twelve-year-old boy who lives on the small Dutch island of Curacao, is shipwrecked with Timothy, an old black man, once the Germans have torpedoed their boat during World War II. Having been knocked unconscious, Phillip then wakes up in a raft with Timothy and Stew Cat, the cook’s cat that has survived the explosion. Phillip at first does not trust Timothy because of his own prejudice, but after he loses his eyesight, Philip realizes how dependent
something hit him and he woke up on a island. On the island he seen a black man name timothy. Then the boy father went to war on a ship and the ship got hit by a missile. Then with Phillip and his mother on board the ship S S Hato sailing away from Curacao on their way to Virginia. Then the black man name timothy gaved the boy water to drink. Timothy was one of the only black people to remember his age. The boy and Timothy always thought that a aircraft would always past by. Then they built a shelter