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Summary: stranded on an island
Review: This is about a boy named Phillip who is stranded on an island with this man named Timothy. They were stranded on the island for a long time and on this island Phillip is blind and Timothy must help him find his way around, until Timothy decides to make a rope and when Timothy ask Phillip to help with the work but Phillip didn't want to help so Timothy slaped him in the face and then Phillip relize the stuff was really for him. I really don't want to give away to much info.
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Summary: A lesson learned
Review: The Cay is a very good book, it is full of adventure and drama. Theodore Taylor wrote this story with unexpected twists and turns while using very little fore shadowing which gives you a chance to guess at what would happen next in the story. The story begins when a colored man named Timothy rescues a boy named Phillip from drowning after the main ship goes down. Unfortunately their rescue boat veers off course leaving Timothy and Phillip ship-wrecked on a deserted island . I highly recommend this book to people of all ages who like to read.
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Summary: LIFE OR DEATH SITUATIONS
Review: The Cay is a story about a young 12-year-old boy named Phillip who becomes marooned upon a desolate island with a black man named Timothy. I believe that the theme of the Cay
Is to keep your heart nearby when worst comes to worst.
Together they learn to survive and become dependent on all of the life around them. With a war raging around them their hopes of rescue are slowly dissipating. Their attempts to be seen continue to go unnoticed by the pilots. With tragedy around every corner Phillip must learn how to live on his own. One question lingers in Phillip's mind-"will I ever be rescued?" Theodore Taylor has a certain style of making his theme so irresistible that keeps his readers on the edge of their seats. This is a must read story for young adults and their parents.
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Summary: Shipwrecked
Review: The Cay is about a boy, Phillip who only has one hope of surviving, a black man named Timothy. Phillip and Timothy were shipwrecked and Phillip hit his head and went blind. Phillip always looked down upon black people. He looked down upon black people because of his mother's hatred of black people. This most shows when he quotes, 'You stupid black man you can't even spell'. Now he must overcome his racism in order to survive. All in all this is a good book, it has just enough foreshadowing to give you hints about what is going to happen next. Like when Timothy told Phillip not to go near the edge because he'll fall overboard you know Phillip is going to fall overboard. That is good foreshadowing. I think this is a interesting book.
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Summary: "Marooned"
Review: Phillip is stranded on a small cay, and is stuck with one man...Timothy. This story tells of how a boy overcomes racism against a newfound friend, and learns to survive while being blind.
Phillip is racist because of his mother's hatred towards other cultures. It shows most when Phillip gets upset with Timothy and quotes, "You stupid old Blackman, you can't even spell."The setting of the story is a nice tropical island, near the coast of Venezuela. It makes you feel like you were there. The Cay is a very good book and sends a strong message to learn to get along with other races.
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Summary: The Cay
Review: During World War Two in the Caribbean, young Phillip Enright finds himself on a raft with a black man named Timothy. Phillip's mother taught Phillip that white people are better than blacks. Phillip needs to put his feelings aside, forget his racism, and learn to work with Timothy to survive. Will Phillip be able to look past Timothy's skin color and work with Timothy to live? Theodore Taylor does a great job of creating the atmosphere where hope overcomes despair and friendship defeats racism. I highly recommend this book because it is an exciting book that teaches children that all people are equal and should be treated the same.
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Summary: Do or Die
Review: This book takes place during World War2, a time when the black people of America 'had their own side of town'. A white boy, Phillip is rescued from a sinking ship by a black sailor by name of Timothy. At first Phillip isn't sure he can trust Timothy. He was always taught that black people shouldn't be trusted. Through struggle and hardship Phillip must learn to forget about the color of skin.
Readers of all ages will love this tale of companionship. When Phillip becomes blind, his life rests in the strong palms of Timothy. For the first time Phillip is dependent on a black person. While living with Timothy, Phillip learns about different kinds of knowledge.
The first couple of chapters weren't grabbing but this book gets better. Theodore Taylor tells this story in a way that will make you laugh and cry. Taylor uses just the right amount of foreshadowing. He gave you an idea about what was going to happen without making it so obvious that is wasn't exciting.
Like it said on the cover: It took blindness to make Phillip truly see.
Rescue is something different altogether; will they make it home alive?
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Summary: A great book
Review: This book was really good.It [pulls] you in once you read the first page.This is a must read!!
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Summary: Summary of The Cay
Review: The Cay was a great book from beginning to end! We had to read this as a class book just in April 5,2002 and ended it on April 29,2002. They Cay is about a boy named Phillip Enright, who lives in Williamstad on the island of Curacao. World War II was just beginning and Phillips mother, Grace Enright, wants to leave the island and he has to go with her! He doesn't want to leave because he thinks his friend Henrik will think of him as a coward! After the S.S. Hato leaves the island it is torpedoed by a Greman submarine and Phillip gets hit in the head and goes blind. When he wakes up he finds out taht he is on a raft with a black man, who says he is in his 70's and seperated from his mother! He blames Timothy, the black man, for seperating him from his mother, he also starts to dislike him because in Williamstad the blacks were seperated from the whites and his mom taught him to dislike blacks. Phillip then goes blind again, this time he stays blind! When Timothy finds an island Phillip doesn't want to go because he thinks that his dad, also, Phillip Enright, had search boats out after him. The boats don't come so Phillip gets off of the raft with Timothy. A hurricane comes and Timothy is getting ready for it, by tieing things to a plam tree, including Phillip! He was more worried about Phillip and himself then he did Stew Cat! After the hurricane was over, Phillip found Timothy dead! Now him and Stew Cat learn to survive with each other. One day Phillip hears a noise like a boat motor... it was a rescue boat! Phillip went over by the shore and started waaving his hands. When the guy walked up to him, he saw that he was naked! He asked if he was blind and if there was anyone else on this island. When Phillip arrives back home to Williamstad, he hears his parents! Now he knows his mom survived, just like he did. After several operations, Phillip can now see again. He also goes to the other side of town where the black people live and visit them, he also talks to the people who knew Timothy.
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Summary: The Cay
Review: This book is a powerful example of a point I strongly believe in and that is that prejudices are learned. Phillip, a twelve year old boy, and his mother decide to leave Curacao, the island they live on, when it is attacked in February 1942 and head to safety in Virginia. On their trip over, their boat was torpedoed and after a series of events Phillip was in the water hit in the head by a board. The next thing Phillip recalled was waking up in a raft with a large African American man, Timothy. Phillip is instantly worried and suspicious because he was raised learning that African Americans lead a different life than Caucasian Americans. After a couple of days being with Timothy, Phillip suffered from a concussion after being hit in the head and became blind. Timothy cared for Phillip and the cay they landed on. However, Timothy was getting old and knew he would not be around forever, so he began to teach Phillip how to care for himself incase nobody ever found them. Phillip came to trust Timothy and gained a new self-confidence after meeting all of the challenges Timothy set before him. Phillip's trust and love for Timothy grew to be so strong that one night while laying next to Timothy he asked if he was still black. This is what I mean when I say prejudices are learned. The color of someone is simply what his or her skin looks like. Everyone's heart and soul has the ability to be equal. I would recommend this book for children as young as fifth grade. I believe it is a wonderful book and has a great deal of literary merit. The Cay has a great deal of diversity too with age, race, and a disability being major parts of the book. The one problem I have with this book is once you start it is practically impossible to put it down!
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