The Cay

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Summary: The Cay By Theodore Taylor
Review: "The Cay" is about two entirely different people who get stranded on an island together. They are stranded on the island because of a ship wreck. Being able to survive and for the two to learn to work their problems out is the conflict of the book. Philip ends up becoming blind, which actually helped him to overcome his problem with racism. This book shows how two entirely different people can learn to be friends and help each other. Please take the time to read this five star book!

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Summary: A Dull Book
Review: The Cay by Theodore Taylor was an interesting book. It had lovely morals and lessons such as people should not be judged by what they looked like and things of that sort. I thought the book grew dull though. The story took place on one small cay in the middle of nowhere. Philip was hit on the back of his head while fleeing from a German U-boat and became blind. He was stranded on a small cay in Devil's Mouth with an old ugly black man. Philip was taught to hate blacks and he thought that anyone of a different color was not as good as he. When Timothy was killed in a Tempest Philip had to learn how to survive on a small island on his own. If Theodore Taylor had found more interesting and new things for Philip to do the book may not have grown so dull.

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Summary: A LESSON IN CHANGE
Review: Taylor puts the two most different individuals in the same drastic situation of life and death. Phillip, who has grown up being told to stay away from blacks, is rescued by Timothy, who is an older black man. The novel is a little bit Robinson Crusoe and a little Helen Keller. Phillip goes through many emotions that the readers may laugh about because they can relate to the absurdity-one example is his exaggerated selfishness. Phillip is forced to change, but does it willingly & in his own time. For as Timothy would say, "I'm all you've got"(but with his accent). This is a sweet book about a wonderful friendship forged on circumstance and tragedy.

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Summary: Sentimentally Touching
Review: Theodore Talyor wrote this book in 1969, after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assinated. "The Cay" is decicated to Dr. King's dream. In this story, a young boy must learn about the valve of the content of a person's character, no matter their color. While stranded on an island, Phillip undergoes many changes both physically and mentally. The end is very sad and I even cried a little. I highly recommend "The Cay" for school reading classes. I am a sixth grader and we just finished reading this book in school.

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Summary: The Cay
Review: The book "The Cay" took place in 1942 during World War II in the Caribbean Sea. It's about a young boy named Phillip, who gets stranded on a small cay/island in the Devil's Mouth along with an old, ugly, black man named Timothy. The main idea of the story is about their survival on the cay for several months through hurricanes and the raging sea. "The Cay" is a good book, but it sometimes it lost our interest.

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Summary: preety cool book
Review: im a seventh grader and i thought this was a good book. its was wonderfull how they both overdame there prejudices. it was a touching story and i cryed at the end.

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Summary: Good choice for discussion groups at elementary schools
Review: Although there are plenty of books about people who survive in the cold wilderness, I chose to include this island adventure in my fifth grade unit on survival. Not only did it get my students talking about survival skills, but it also allowed them to respond to the character's feelings on race in a neutral way. The students who read this book, both black and white, said that their discussions were very enlightening. I'd suggest this to teachers and parents as a good group novel or read-aloud.

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Summary: A great book for pople who like aventurs.
Review: The book is about a young boy that lives with his mother and father.The mother went on a boat with the young by and his name is Phillip and he gets stranded on a cay with a black man named Timothy. Timothy teaches Phillip about surriviving skills and Phillip teachesTimothy about geography.

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Summary: A great book that you'll enjoy if you like adventures.
Review: It is about a 11 year old boy who isw handicapped with an old man Timothy stranded on an island.Timothy teaches him how to survive on the island.A bad thing happens and someone dies.

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Summary: A great book about survival.
Review: The book was about a little boy and an adult trapped on an island. The boy becomes handicaped. They don't have alot of food. The boy learns to do things on his own.