The Cay

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Summary: Good But Not Good Enough
Review: The Cay is an ok book but it could have been better. The book sort of dragged on for a while and it was like, oh, ok, what next? I liked the whole twist in the end though, when Timothy died all of a sudden, that put some spice in to the story.The ending was really dull! I mean, come on! The author just wanted to finish the story, he didnt put alot of effort into it at all. I mean, after all those failiures, he just gets rescued, just like that. It's not the way you make a good book and definately not the way to make a good ending. On whole the book is not on my top 50 list. The author needs to put more action into the whole book, and if he did, it would have made more of an impact to the readers. Sorry dude, it's good, but not good enough!

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Summary: The Cay
Review: Phillip Enright is an 11 year old boy who, like many young children, takes his view on people and life from his mother, a prim racist who once told her son "They are not like us Phillip." While on the subject of black men and women. When their home, Curacao, is attacked by german submarines, Mrs. Enright decides that she and her son must leave immediatly, traveling by boat to Miami. After the boat is torpedoed, Phillip awakens to find himself with no one but a cat and old black man, on a raft drifting off toward a deserted island. Phillip feels superior to Timothy (the black man)and Timothy feels he needs a bit of respect from his youngers. What will challenge the survival more? Phillip's bitter dislike for Timothy, or the Cay?

I give this novel 5 stars for its creativity. I also love books that can emotionally connect you with a character in a way that makes you live in the book. I recommend it to anybody who needs a REALLY good read.

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Summary: The cay: a story of survival and friendship
Review: The Cay was an interesting story of a blind boys survival on a Cay with the company of an old carribean man and a cat. i think the attitude towards racism in this book is a story in itself. i think it is a good contribution to the awareness of racism to people who are not subjected in the immediate community to the reality of racism. the way the author makes the friendship of the old man and the boy grow from the thought of the old man to be a stubborn, stupid negro to the thought that he is a fatherly and kind person. this is a really enjoyable book to do for a novel study because their is just one main point that the story builds on, so you can leave off the reading for a while, but when you get back to the book you dont have to rack your brains to remember what happened.

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Summary: The blinding truth
Review: This was a pretty good book. This was good because it deals with how people judge before actually knowing them, or get to know them and think they're annoying. A sailor, a small boy, and a cat get shipwrecked on an island and see how different and similar they are. Soon something happens to one of them and damages thier seeing maybe forever. After the sailor, who is african, dies of a disease and now the kid is left to fend for himself alone with a cat as company.Being blind he soon has trouble around the island, and later knows what to do. Aboat soon comes and saves him and takes him to his family, but he has to wear glasses forever.

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Summary: A 6th grade classes review
Review: My 6th grade classes just finished reading this book. We loved it! If we had the option, we would give it 10 stars! It helped us open our eyes to the effects of racism and taught us how important friendship and love are. My students can't wait to read other books by Mr. Taylor.

I received a personal letter from the author and each of my students has written to Mr. Taylor, hoping for a response. Thank you for writing such a great book Mr. Taylor and we can't recommend it to others highly enough

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Summary: The Cay in a paragraph
Review: This book is a good book to teach a person about survival. The boy {Phillip) and his negro friend get shipwrecked and get stranded on a deserted island. The setting of the book takes place during some fierce fighting during WWII.The boat they were riding in was sunk by a German U-boat.The unusual couple get past there differences and create a unusual bond to keep each other alive.

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Summary: The Cay
Review: Richard

Review on The Cay

'The Cay' by Theodore Taylor is an awesome book about war, prejudice and survival. When the war started 11 year old Phillip Enright is forced to leave the island of Curacao with his mother to go to Virginia where they used to live. They left his dad behind to do his work on the island. When Phillip and his mother left the island on a small boat its shoot down and Phillips gets unconscious. Phillip ends up on an island with a black man and a cat Phillip turns out blind. Phillip learns to survive with his blindness. The black man teaches Phillip to fish, and other survival skills. When the black man dies, Phillip is forced to survive himself on the island being blind. This book is allot better then Night John. Night john focuses just on prejudice. But the cay is a lot better because its focus on topics not just one the whole time. I recommend everyone reading this book. This book taught me that one man can survive in any condition and to make the best of it. This book also teaches survival skills and many other life-teaching skills.

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Summary: The Cay
Review: THE CAY
By Theodore Taylor
Fiction-Survival
Action. Adventure. War. Survival. Prejudice. Death. Disability. How did Theodore Taylor cram all this into one small book-and still make it believable? Two words: descriptive writing.
Start with the main setting, the cay. Taylor ingeniously describes every inch of the barren island through a blind boy's eyes in a way that lets the reader feel the sand and hear the sea. His writing makes the cay an extremely realistic and appropriate setting for this story.
Very few authors could create a storyline as unbelievable and yet as realistic as The Cay's. A young boy named Phillip is blinded and stranded after a German U-boat attacked the ship he and his mother were aboard. Phillip and a West Indian named Timothy somehow survive the blast and drift to an empty Caribbean island. But can they survive long enough to be rescued?
The characters are the greatest testament to Taylor's writing. He develops them perfectly and the dialoguing brings out their personalities. Phillip is innocent in his youth. He was taught that blacks were inferior and he thinks that war is exciting. Wrong. And soon after the ship goes down, he realizes how wrong he was. Timothy, "an ugly old black man," teaches Phillip how to survive, and teaches all of us just how wrong prejudices are. Timothy's dialect develops his personality; stubborn, intelligent, capable, and often misunderstood.
Though intended for middle school students, The Cay is an excellent read for anyone over 10. Theodore Taylor makes it easy enough for a 10-year-old, but meaningful enough to make a 30-year-old cry. If you aren't touched by The Cay, I suggest you get your heart checked.

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Summary: The Cay Review by Katie G.
Review: Phillip Enright lives on an island called Curacao. WWII is going on. Phillip and his mother were going to Virginia when their boat got torpedoed. He and his mother got separated. Phillip is blinded by a bad crack on the head. He ends up on a lifeboat with a "stubborn" black man named Timothy and a cat named Stew Cat. Before Phillip met Timothy, he was prejudice but over the time he loses his prejudice. After a couple days, Phillip, Timothy, and Stew Cat get on a deserted island.

I liked this book because it was full of adventure and some mysteries. I thought Timothy was sometimes scary; he was a nice and protective man too. I would give this book a five star rating. What do you think will happen to Timothy and Phillip on the little island? Will they survive? Will they get rescued? Well, you'll find out when you read The Cay!

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Summary: The Cay Review by Heleina
Review: Phillip was an 11 year old boy who was stranded on an island during World War II. Here he becomes blind, since he was unable to see it would be hard to get around the island, his only hope was Timothy! When Timothy died here I thought that there was no hope.
I would rate this book on a scale from 1-10 an 8 or 9. I feel this book was very interesting, it was sad and also funny.