The Cay

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Summary: *From Hatetred To Friendship *
Review: I choose this book because just the description on the back was very intresting. I read this book and loved it. Its aboout a boy named Phillip and a man named Timothy. They are trapped on an uncharted island.
Later on into the book a huge storm comes over the cay, and Timothy and Phillip have to survive this storm. Phillip is the main character while there on the Cay Phillip Stared into the son and was blinded! Timothy and Phillip are accompanied by a cat who the call Stew cat. This book is an excelent book to read. At first Phillip dose not like Timothy, but later he and Timothy become very good friends.If you like survival stories this is a bookI would recomend for you.at the end soomething unexpected happens to Timothy he well you'll have to read it your self if you want to know. This book is perfect for anyone who likes survival stories !!!!

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Summary: If you read this ur cool!
Review: Theodore Taylor's book "The Cay" is a great book! It has many good lessons. The book also has many good details of everything.
The book is taking place during World War II .The book is about a boy (Phillip) and his family. They are leaving the island that they live on when their ship gets torpedoed.Phillip gets stuck on a life raft with one of the shipmates(Timothy). They end up on a cay and try to keep alive.
My favorite character was Timothy. I liked Timothy because he was a strong,unprejudice, and unselfish.
My favorite part in the book was the night that the ship got torpedoed. I like this part because it shows how hard it is to get off a ship without panicking or going crazy.

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Summary: Excellent for reluctant readers!
Review: I've had a lot of trouble finding books that are age appropriate for my son, and hold his attention (he's 4th grade - extremely reluctant reader). A couple of weeks ago, I picked up "The Cay." It's a story about an 11 year old boy who gets shipwrecked with an older man from St. Thomas. The story line is great, with lots of things going on to hold a young man's attention.

My son is a reluctant reader who resists re-visiting words he has missed. But since he was so interested in this book, he was willing to go back and look at words that he missed when I asked him to, so he could get the entire meaning of what he was reading. No open defiance because he wanted to keep going to see what was going to happen next! It was just easier to look at the word so I'd quit bugging him.

One of the reasons this was a good reading book for my son is that there was a lot of phonetic dialogue, with which the author illustrated the accent of the older man from the Virgin Islands. In the sentence immediately after the dialogue, the information about what the old man said followed - so anyone could pick it up even if they couldn't "read" the dialogue. We had a lot of fun with that - both of us trying to sound out the words, and trying to make our accents "sing-song" like the book said the old man's was. There were also a lot of foreign geographic names in the book that I couldn't pronounce. My son got a big kick out of helping ME. :-)

After the first three nights of reading at home, he took the book to school to read during his free time. First independent reading he's ever WANTED to do!

This book also had a lot of good social issues (set during WWII)regarding race, perception, empathy - all good discussion issues for growing boys!.

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Summary: Sienna's Review
Review: The Cay,is a very interesting book about a racist boy who is stranded on an island with a African American named,Timothy.Phillip learns his lesson not to judge because,when u are left with one person you don't like .You have to learn how to depend on each other.So if you like history,or moral,or humorous books u should like this one.

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Summary: Evelyn Horan-author(see more about me)
Review: As a classroom teacher, The Cay is required reading for all sixth graders. It is an excellent book to help instill values of tolerance, understanding and love for those who are different.
It is a book all children should read.
Evelyn Horan - author/teacher
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Summary: The Cay
Review: I thought this book was very good because of the action, the vocabulary, and the plot. This book was very good if you like some action. This book takes place of the coast of South America. Also, this book was good because the author puts his feelings into the book very well. Last I thougut the book was good because of the plot. The plot of the book is about a yong boy who takes a blow to the head and becomes blind when the ship is torpedoed. Phillip,the yong, gets stranded on a island with an old blak man. There is lots of fighting because of racism. Inconclusion I think thisbook was very good and I recommend this book to anyone who reads.

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Summary: Deserted
Review: I thought the book The Cay, by Theodore Taylor, was bad. I did not enjoy this book because it was very dull in the begining and stayed that way for quite awhile. The book started to become good when Phillip went blind and a hurricane hit the island. After that it became very dull all the way until Phillip was rescued. This book did not catch my interest at all. This book did have alot of prejudice though. I would not recommend this book to anyone. I would definitly give this book one star at the most. If you like books about people on stranded islands go ahead and read The Cay. If not, don't even pick up this book. That is why I did not like The Cay.

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Summary: Stranded
Review: The Cay was a great book. Heres a little about it. Phillip, an 11 year old white, blind boy who is prejudice was stranded on an island with a cat and a black man. The cats name is Stew. The blacks mans name is Timothy. He is sort of slow, but Phillip finds him to be a wonderful man. When something tragic happens Phillip is left with a hole in his heart.
I would recommend this book, The Cay, by Theodore Taylor, to anyone who loves adventures.

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Summary: A Memorable Classic
Review: This is an award-winning novel for good reason, and will always remain a classic. This novel touches on serveral important topics such as prejudice, love, and survival.

This novel takes place during the years of World War II. 11-year-old Phillip Enright lives with his parents on the island of Curaçao. When the war becomes too close for comfort, his mother decides to travel with him back to Virginia in hopes of finding safety. It is on the journey to Virginia that their boat is torpedoed. Phillip is one of only a few known survivors, and is blinded during the sinking of his ship. He soon finds himself adrift on a life raft with an old black man named Timothy and a cat. They eventually land on a deserted scarap of land much too small to be called an island (hence the name Cay).

Phillip is suspicious of Timothy, but as they suffer through the hardships they must face he soon grows to trust and to later love Timothy.

This is a truly remarkable book, and leaves small wonder as to why it is now required reading for school children. I find it benificial to all ages myself, and would recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: He had to be Blind to see the Truth
Review: Son of an American engineer for Royal Dutch Shell, young Philip Enright has been raised on the Island of Curacao in the early 40's. But his laidback, tropical lifestyle is suddenly shattered when German subs blockade the port, then torpedo even his escape boat. The ruthless forces of World War II catapult the boy into a world of danger and darknes, for he regains consciousness upon a raft--with only a huge Black native and the ship's cat as companions.

Terrified and hampered by his blindness, the boy must come to grips with many elements, in order to survive his ordeal both at sea and finally on an
inhospitable Caribbean cay. Waging his own private war with instant helplessness, Philip must test all his ingrained racial prejudices, as he realizes that his very life depends upon old
Timothy's compassion, native skills and tenacity of spirit.
The boy's social education continues over four months, culminating in his "graduation" from The Cay School of Survival. But the kindly Negro envisions a larger plan for his student: to teach him to become totally self-sufficient. This interesting story, though not deep or literary, offers gentle racial undertones. The style--fast action, dialect and much dialogue--will appeal to middle school readers. A refreshing change from Winter survival tales.