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Summary: Excellent for class reading!!
Review: Our class just finished this book a couple of days ago. It was a great book with excellent vocabulary in it. It might not be one of the best books you ever read but, I suggest you read this for the summer or in your free time. In this book, a young boy named Phillip, which will become blind later on, and an old black man with excellent survival skills which is Timothy. They both get stranded on a cay, and Phillip is a bit prejudice, but everything changed while they were on the cay. In this book, you can learn not to judge a book by its cover, that's the lesson I learned. So I said, this is not one of the best books in the world but, you should check it out someday. Other books I recommend is: Sign of the Beaver, Popper's Penguins, The Mayflower, and soo much more I forgot!! All those are great for a group or class reading together. I recommend those books for 3rd-6th grade.
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Summary: The Cay Review
Review: In the book The Cay, by Theodore Taylor, the protagonist Philip, who is also the narrator, becomes blind, and is stuck with an old black man named Timothy on a forgotten island in the Caribbean. Philip has to learn to survive in spite of the prejudice his mother has taught him against black people. The book was hard to get through because I found it hard to read when there was a lack of interesting things going on, which tragically was most of the time. The book would be a better read if the plot was more eventful. Most things were right on the surface, and the narrator just said it as it is, so there was nothing to figure out, thus sometimes making the story even harder to read. There was also a lacking of seventh grade vocabulary and the plot was relatively predictable, almost as predictable as the sun rising and setting. An example when there was a lack of vocabulary and interesting plot, is when Timothy is about to die. Philip states that he thinks that Timothy might be growing old, and since he is teaching him how to survive, Timothy maybe even thinking about the possibility of his own death. This allows the reader to think, maybe Timothy will die, and then after the storm, sure enough, Timothy passes away and Philip is left alone on the island. There were also many times where the plot was built-up and you expected something to happen, but instead you were let down to something ordinary. Since this was an adventure novel, or at least attempted to be one, you might expect if they came upon an island, that there be a unique creature, or obvious antagonist throughout their time on the island, instead it was just their struggle for survival, and now we can get almost the same thing, and more entertainment from watching Survivor on CBS every Thursday night.
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Summary: The Cay
Review: The Cay is a book that sort of has random subjects that are identified by the author, but it feels like they are choosen out of the blue. The Cay was not the best book I had ever read. There was nothing making curious about what is going to happen next. The story wants you to put yourself in the characters place to feel what they felt, so if you don't like doing that, don't read this book. Personally, if this book was not assigned by my teacher, you would not see me with this book. But it depends on what sort of book you like, and if you like stories that are very strait-forward and not very intense, it recomend this book to you.
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Summary: "The Cay",OK?
Review: I had to read this book for am english calss, and it was ok. I didnt really enjoy the book but thats just me. I maen, this book isnt really my favorite type of book, I like lord of the rings type things. the story was great and the message was good too but I just dont like the way it was written, the narrative. but all in all it was not a bad book and it was not a book that I would like to hear about again. I read it, thats it. :-P
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Summary: the cay
Review: this was not a very good book and i would not advise any one who cares about their money to buy it. Its a waste of time and there are no parts which make you want to keep on reading, or have you wondering what is going to happen next and since it i an adventure story there should be plenty of those. the entire story seemed to be a bit rushed expecialy the end. it is a good novel study book because you can leave it and then come back and read it later but apart from that...it aint very good.
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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: 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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