The Cay

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Summary: The Cay
Review: "The Cay" Book Review
In the book The Cay, by Theodore Taylor that we read in our literature circle groups is a very thrilling book. This book is about a boy that his boat gets hit by a torpedo and sinks. Phillip the main character and his mom run off to different lifeboats and get separated. While he is on the lifeboat he wakes up to find himself with a black man. Later, the next day he becomes blind. The next day they get to the island and life just starts to begin there. I liked The Cay because of the adventure that it displays in the text. One part of the book that displays the adventure is when they first come to the island. Phillip is also a young boy and he does not know the outside world of Curacoo. This makes it an adventure because he does not know were he is going. And Curacoo is a very small island in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. I also liked this book because of its language. The book used different language used by Timothy. Timothy is the person that Phillip saw on the boat and spends his rest of his life with. Instead of using regular words like how we speak English. Timothy puts a little of a twist on his words. Those are some of the reasons why I liked The Cay.

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Review: Brendan Kutler
Theodore Taylor's The Cay, an adventure/survivial story, is one book that requires only one thing for you to love it... have a pulse! The story starts when Phillip and his mom want to avoid World War Two on the island called Curaco, where they now live and go back to the U.S. But instead of geting to safety their ship is torpedoed. That's when Phillip is blinded by a blow to the head and pulled on to a raft by Timothy, A sixty to seventy year old man and Stew, the chef's cat. They ate then cast upon a cay, and even Timothy is not sure where they are.
While Phillip is learning about getting around by feeling with a cane that Timothy made him, Timothy is building a shelter and getting food. He is also teaching Philllip how to fish and Phillip thinks there is a good reason for this. Taylor's descriptive style makes The Cay a must-read for everyone from eight to eighty years old.

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Summary: For English Class we had to read The Cay and do essays on it
Review: I am in sixth grade now and our english teacher picked the book The Cay by Theadore Taylore to read as an assigned book. The Cay was the most recent assigned book we have read so we are still doing essays. Just by looking at the cover, this book look stupid to me. But when I read it, it was excellent. My teacher is always making us write essays for assigned books. The topics for our Cay essays were as followed: Phillip's immaturity changing to mature; Phillip's prejudice towards blacks and then accepting blacks; a newspaper article on the German & Dutch war; a brochure for presuading people to visit a Caribbean island; a newspaper article on the rescue of Phillip; and a couple others I can't think of. I mostly got A+ and A's on all of these essays. The only thing that brought the 10 rating down to a 9 is because it was hard to read when Timothy talked. But other wise I would give it a ten. I think that this book would be good for boys and girls ages 11+. I am 12 now so I would qulafy. I hope you will read this book. It is awesome!!!

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Summary: A book filled with Racist Undertones
Review: I think this book is not a book for 11 year olds to read. This book is full of racist interjections, the description of Timothy, the fact that Phillip decides at some point he is superior to Timothy. The fact that they even say that his mother says blacks have THEIR PLACE. Sure this book had a moral , but it was lost in the negative parts, Timothy at some points spoke decent English then all of a sudden he could not speak English and went into a dialect that no one speaks but the author. Dr. King would have turned over in his grave at this book.

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Summary: The Cay
Review: The Cay, by Theodore Taylor is a powerful story about overcoming prejudice and survival. In 1942, 11-year-old Phillip Enright lives with his parents on the Dutch island of Curacao, but when the war moves too close for comfort, his mother decides to travel with him back to the safety of Virginia. When their boat is torpedoed, however, Phillip is blinded and finds himself adrift on a life raft with an old black man and a cat. They eventually land on a deserted island. At first Phillip is suspicious of "the large Negro," but soon grows to trust the generous Timothy.

Phillip is an 11 year old boy who grows up in Curacao. Because of his parents Phillip develops prejudice against blacks. But with his upcoming experience all that is about to change. Timothy is a older black man who was stranded on the island with Phillip. He owns a cat named Stew Cat that was brought with him. Timothy helps Phillip survive on this island and teaches him about survival.

The war and the German submarines have come to Phillip's part of the Caribbean, and Phillip's mother fears for their safety. Phillip's dad must stay behind for his job, but Phillip and his mother board a ship that will take them back to Virginia where they originally lived. Two days after being on the ship, the ship is torpedoed by German U-boats and during the evacuation, Phillip is separated from his mother. Phillip awakens to find himself on a raft with Timothy and a cat named Stew Cat. He has also found that he was left blinded after the attack. The three castaways finally reach a small cay where they must learn to live off the land in order to survive while they hope to be rescued.
Timothy made a rope that would go from the hut to the ocean so that Phillip could get around the island. He taught Phillip how to fish and many survival skills. Phillip one day ask Timothy if they could be friends. Timothy responds that he was always his friend. Timothy develops malaria and a hurricane hits the cay. It left everything on the tiny cay devastated. While protecting Phillip from the hurricane Timothy dies. Phillip buries Timothy not forgetting everything he did for him and what he taught him. Phillip survive on the cay alone for about a month after the hurricane and is reunited with his family. He was brought to a doctor where his vision was restored to normal.

There are many conflicts in this book that the main characters must overcome. This book is not only a great survival story, but also a touching story about overcoming prejudices and seeing a person for whom they really are. This is a must read for ages 11 and up.

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Summary: The Cay
Review: The Cay, by Theodore Taylor, is a really good book. It is about a boy named Phillip who has to survive on a small island with an old man named Timothy. Will they survive or will a strong hurricane harm them. You will find out in The Cay. Anyone who enjoyed Hatchet will like this book. It is eventful and beautifully written.