The Cay

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Summary: The Cay
Review: This book was awesome! It started out with a boy named Phillip who lived in the Caribbean. Phillip and his family were racist toward black people. They kinfd of thought that thet were bums! During the book, 1942, some German tankers were attacking the ships that went out to sea. After a while Phillips mother did not feel safe where they lived. She wanted to go back to Virginia were they had lived before they moved south. Since Phillips dad had a steady job and was helping in the war he decided that it would be best if they stayed on the island. Phillips mother preferred to go back to the states. Phillip and his mother went back alone. On their way they got bombed. their was a great explosion and everyone was frightened. They made it to the life boats safely with the other passangers. But they did not stay in the boat for long. The boat capsized and phillip got knocked on the head. When he woke up he was on a boat with his worst enemy, a black man. He was a very, very ugly and he was very, very large. Phillip was very frightened. But mainly he was scared about knowing where his mother was. During this whole timeon this lifeboat with this black man named Timothy, Phillip had a terrible headache. One day he woke up and he was blind. The only plus was that his headache was gone. One day they landed on an island. They were stuck on it for a long time. While they were on the island there was a hurricane. It mad a log fall on both of them. It knocked both of them out. But Timothy did not wake up. Shortly a ship came and saved Phillip. The conflict in this book were man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. socirty, and man vs. himself. The man vs. man was the white people on the island and the black people on the island. The man vs. nature was on the island a hurrican struck and killed Timothy. The third conflict was man vs. society. it was the pressure on Phillips family to not like blacks. And the fourth conflict was man vs. himself. This was Phillip against himself. He had to deal with his blindness. In all I like this book. It was a very educational book because I learned what it was like during a hurricane. I also learned that the Island of Curaco was just north of Venezuela. I feel that anyone in the age group of fourth through eigth grade should read this book. It is not easy but it is defenitely not too hard. In conclusion this book defenitely deserves five stars. Like I said it was awsome.

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Summary: "The Cay" By Theodore Taylor
Review: The extraordinary book, The Cay, By:Theodore Taylor was a totally absorbing story, starkly dramatic, beliveable and compelling. Phillip was so frightend he could barely breathe. All around him were shark infested waters of the Caribbean, and darkness. Blined by a blow to his head when his ship was torpedoed, he was adrift on a wooden raft with the big black man who worked on the deck. After a couple of days on the raft, they reached the isolated Cay,they called The Devil's Mouth. There is not really a very big part in the book that held me to supense, but I enjoyed learning that there is more than one way to really "see" something. And although Phillip never saw the place, all he has to do is close his eyes and listen. I guess you can say that Phillip learned a lot from his mother. He learned how to be creative and use the things around him to get by. What I mean is that he took the palm tree leaves and woove them into a mat for him and Timothy to sleep on. There are only two conflicts that happens in this book, and they are man verse himself and man verse nature. The conflict man verse himself accures when Phillip has to reach inside himself and do the right thing. The conflict man verse nature is when he has to deal with the storms, adjust tot he weather and etc. Also, they got sick of drinking water so Timothy found out that inside the coconuts there is milk. Phillip decided to climb a tree, so I thought that was great because he is blind after all. I gave this book five shiny gold stars because eventhough Phillip was blind he was still able to take care of himself,with the help of his wise friend Timothy. Given the oppertunity to read this book I think anyone would enjoy it,I know I did! Just because there isn't much supense, you would want to keep readind to find out what happens. In conclusion I'm sure anyone who reads this book would love it! I mean if most of a book was based on a blind kid making a way for himself to live, wouldn't you want to know how he did it?

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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.