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Summary: The Cay
Review: I thought that The Cay was a very concise and well written book.I think the author had to have reasearched everything about this book or it would've seemed almost unrealistic, but the way with the way the author writes this is a great book.I think its very believeable and compelling.This was a good survial story.
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Review: I read "The Cay" for a school summer project. I liked this book very much because it is a story of true courage and trust. I think that both Timothy and Phillip were brave and I don't know what I would have done if I was in either of their situations.
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Summary: interesting
Review: I thought that this book was very interisting compaired to The Black Pearl.The Cay was also more exciting.I could almost never put the book down.I highly recommend this book to others.
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Review: This book was fun to read if you enjoy stories about survival. Although i had to read it for school I am glad i did since it was very touching to me.
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Summary: This novel should have won the Newbery Medal.
Review: CHARACTERS: Phillip Enright, 11, American citizen living with his parents on Curacao; Timothy, an elderly black West Indian deckhand; and Stew Cat, a tomcat shipwrecked along with them.SUMMARY: In February 1942 the Germans attack an oil refinery on Aruba, neighboring island of Curacao, Dutch island off the Venezuelan coast. Young Phillip is living in Willemstad, Curacao, with his parents, but after the attack his mother wants to return to America. Phillip and Father are against the plan, but eventually Mother gets her way. Just days out to sea, the Germans torpedo the Dutch freighter Phillip and his mother have boarded to flee Curacao. The ship breaks up and sinks; mother and son are separated. Mrs. Enright's fate is unknown, but Phillip is hauled onto a lifeboat by a very old black West Indian who'd been a crewmember on board the "Hato." The only other occupant of the lifeboat is an old cat named Stew Cat; the three are adrift on the open sea for days with only a keg of water, some matches and a few crackers. Phillip was struck on the head when the "Hato" was sunk, and he has a splitting headache and concussion. After two days on the raft with Timothy and Stew Cat, he goes completely blind. On the third day at sea a plane flies overhead and Timothy signals for help with a torch, but they are not seen. Timothy, Phillip and the cat make it to a small island that the old Negro, an old sea-hand, figures must be in the Devil's Mouth. Phillips initial reaction to Timothy is one of revulsion; he finds the big black man ugly and frightening. His mother's prejudice against blacks is a factor in his attitude, but Phillip eventually overcomes it and they truly become friends. When they first land on the island, Phillip feigns helplessness, refusing all labor. Timothy encourages the boy and teaches him to make things they'll need. When the boy gathers the courage to climb a coconut palm, he stops feeling sorry for himself and decides to do as much as he can. He is no longer a helpless blind boy. Timothy begins teaching Phillip survival skills--without telling the boy that he is preparing him for survival on the island after the old man dies. In July with a terrible hurricane brewing, Timothy makes preparations for it, including lashing their water tank, matches and knife high on the trunk of a palm tree. They survive the first part of the storm and rest while the hurricane's eye is over them. Then they again lash themselves to the tree again to wait out the storm. After the hurricane, Phillip finds that Timothy has borne the brunt of the storm to protect him; the big West Indian's back is flayed open by sand and things driven by the high winds, and Phillip can't stop Timothy's bleeding. The old man dies. Stew Cat, who was missing after the fierce storm, reappears. Initially the boy feels anger in response to the man's death, but gradually realizes how much Timothy did to prepare him for life alone. In addition to teaching Phillip to get around the cay without assistance, Timothy left a dozen fishing poles lashed to another palm trunk and had taught Phillip as much as he himself knew about survival. Phillip has to bury Timothy, construct a new hut, prepare another signal fire on the beach and a "HELP" message of stones, build a new rainwater catchment, clean the camp of debris, restart his campfire, and search for anything useful the hurricane might have deposited on the cay. At first the amount of work to be done seems overwhelming, but Phillip approaches the situation calmly, rationally, and with intensity. Phillip's first signal fire goes unnoticed, so he determines something oily will make a black smoke visible from a distance. On August 20, 1942 what he thinks is thunder is really a destroyer, so he throws oily sea grape leaves on the signal fire, which emits black smoke visible to rescuers. The deeply-suntanned boy could've been mistaken for a native fisherman, but the captain of an American destroyer hunting German submarines has the boy and Stew Cat picked up. The captain can't believe Phillip could've drifted so far from where the "Hato" was sunk, and he's most astonished to have found a naked blind boy and a cat on a deserted island in the Caribbean. Phillip's put ashore in Panama for medical treatment and his parents are flown in from Curacao. They can't absorb all that their son has to tell them of his time on the cay. Four months after his rescue Phillip has three surgeries to restore his eyesight. The following April, a year after the shipwreck, he returns to Willemstad with his parents. IMPRESSIONS: Beyond the obvious but meaningful theme of overcoming racial prejudices, this is a powerful story about growing up, becoming independent despite physical disability, and about strength and self-reliance beyond the levels required of most human beings--let alone a child. "THE CAY" is a most interesting, believable and memorable book. I'm glad to have read it.
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Summary: The Cay
Review: I thought this book was really educational for children.Phillip was really brave to trust Timothy.Phillip needed to use all his courage to do what Timothy asked him to do.Timothy was always trying to help Phillip and build things to make him safe.Phillip and Timothy needed eachother to survive.Example,when Phillip fell out of the raft,Timothy grabed him and put him on the boat before the sharks got to him,and when Timothy got Milaria,even though Phillip was blind,he still ripped of a peice of his shirt, wet it,and put it on Timothy.i really recomened this book for people my age.
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Review: The Cay was an excellent story that relates to real life feelings in life threating situations. The way that this story showed totally different people (one young, white, and blind and the other old, black, and sightful) is extremly heartwarming. I admire the way Timothy teaches Phillip to really understand and appreciate life and how to survive.
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Review: I think this book is a great book because it tells the life of an ordinary boy untill he is lost at sea with an unusal person to him. At first this book was kind of stupid but after I started reading it it was starting to get very good. It was kind of an adventure. It also was educational for the kind of book it was. I usaly don't like to read but this book was one of the few books i enjoy reading.
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Summary: Ok Book
Review: I had to read this book for English. It was ok. bit boring hear and there but had its exciting part. The book is about a boy living on Curaco in the 1940s when WWII was going on. His mother wants to leave by ship with the boy and the boat is torpedoed and the boy is picked up by a native fisherman. They are stranded on an island and the boy is forced to cope with blindness on the island. An OK Buy
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Summary: The Cay and exciting adventure
Review: I got "The Cay" from our local library. I wanted to use it with an ocean unit. I found the book so enthralling and exciting that I read it in one day. Since the Carribbean is my favorite vacation spot, and the island of Curacao is there, it makes it even more exciting. It was interesting how Timothy was able to overcome his fear of not being able to see with his eyes but had his heart and mind opened by the perserverance of a kindly black gentleman. Eventhough, a hurricane hit and Timothy was left alone, he was able to navigate the island using the skills he acquired earlier. When we have to tear a book apart because it doesn't follow our way of thinking we begin to destroy the joy of reading for our children. Let their minds decide how Timothy fared on the island of Curacao.
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