Summary Of The Cay By Theodore Taylor

Tom climbs out the window and is struck by the shift from the warmth and comfort of his home to the cold, harsh outdoors. Tom Benecke begins to grow scared and uncomfortable perched there in the dark. He stays calm and retrieves the page, but panics as he looks down. He moves back towards the window, slowly

The book, Raiders Night by “Robert Lipsyte” was a very different book compared to other 9th grade books. If you go to the library, and pick any book off the shelf. I doubt you’ll find one involving drugs and steroids. At the same time it was a great book, I loved the intensity. For me it was very easy to relate in life, I was never the big guy that everyone knew. I was just there for football nothing else. Moving on…

In many great books the characters will face a conflict if not multiple conflicts that will test the characters behaviors and actions and throughout the book these conflicts can change how the character or characters act. The book The Cay by Theodore Taylor is no exception to this. In The Cay, Phillip’s character reveals that because of many hardships he developed independence, bravery, and cleverness.

In Theodore Taylor’s novel The Cay, a young boy named Phillip believes that war is a game, until he forced to survive on a deserted cay amidst blindness, with a horribly preconceived black man. Throughout this interesting journey he gains many positive character traits such as independence, gratitude, and maturity.

story is taken place on Caribbean island called, “Ship-Trap Island”. Plenty of the story takes

His troubles occur however when he receives a D in his English class, which is a failing grade at Harrison High School. This prevents him from being able to try out for the track team, and he blames it on his English teacher, Miss Narwin. Phillip accuses Narwin of “having it out for him.” During a ritual homeroom switch, Phillip is moved to Narwin’s homeroom. During the morning announcements, students are asked to “Please all rise and stand at respectful, silent attention for the

The Cay features many characters that have different changes throughout the book. The main character that has the most drastic character evolution is Phillip. Phillip grows and changes after having to overcome many strenuous confrontations. In The Cay, Phillip’s character reveals that through many conflicts, he developed adaptedness, determination, and independence.

The Cay is a book about a young boy, Phillip, who lives in Willemstad, Curaçao during World War II. When the Germans invaded Curaçao, they surrounded the island with submarines. When Phillip and his mother left for the United States, their ship is torpedoed. Phillip is for the next few weeks on a lifeboat with a black man. Prejudice makes Phillip think differently, but his point of view changes as he becomes blind and is stranded on an island with the black man, Timothy. Throughout the story, Phillip is blind both physically and mentally, but his physical blindness eventually enables him to see the true self in people.

In William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”, Jack Merridew possesses multiple qualities that would cause him to be an exemplary leader; however, there are negative traits about Jack that demotes his leadership. Jack Merridew is considerably stubborn when it comes to his ideas, and he contains an impulsive attitude in the decision­making, or lack thereof, process. Jack emits violence similar to that of a wild animal, along with looking down upon at anybody who has even the slightest handicap, including the “littluns”. Jack tells a fair amount of lies in the story, contributing to his extreme thirst of power. Merridew is a hideous, evil young man who is stranded on an island with a multitude of other British boys, including Ralph, Piggy, and Simon.

In the middle Phillip becomes brave because he goes out into the reef and try’s to go fishing and he becomes successful “Squirming and jumping in my hand it was small but fat.When i went fishing before it was fun now i feel i had done something very special”

In the book The Cay by Theodore Taylor, it all starts off when Phillip's mother wants to leave Curacao. The reason why they are there in the first place is because Phillip ’s father works at an oil refinery at there hometown Virginia, and because the world war two is going on they asked him to work at Curacao. Phillips mother wants to leave because she feels that it is unsafe on the island so, they finally leave on a ship called the SS Hato. Two days after departure they get torpedoed and Phillip is hit on the head while being evacuated from the ship. Phillip is then stuck on a raft with an ugly black person in the middle of the sea. They eventually find a little cay and decided to live on it. After many days of being on the island a storm hits, causing them to lose everything. During the storm Timothy (the ugly black man) protects Phillip and he ends us dying. Phillip

Then, suddenly, the pilot becomes ill. It takes Brian a moment to realize the pilot is having a heart attack. Brian is frightened and unsure of what to do. Brian uses the radio to ask for help, but he loses the signal before he can say much. Brian decides to keep the plane steady until it runs out of fuel. Then, he will try to put it down in a lake. When the moment comes, Brian manages to do just that, crashing the plane into the middle of an L-shaped lake.

he was on a raft with a black person named Timothy (see what I mean,

The two friends then talked for a while before trying to make it to Big Thumb a rock that they believed had water in it since Stanley’s great great grandfather said he survived on Big Thumb after being stranded in the desert. After a long climb and walk Zero then goes unconscious until Stanley was able to find wild onions and water in a hole in the mountain, and when Stanley found this hole Zero started to wake up and reagin his energy. A week passed and Stanley stayed at Big Thumb with Zero regaining their strength until they get an idea to go back to camp and look for the treasure that the Warden was looking for. When they arrived at the camp Stanley spotted the hole where he first found the gold tube. Stanley started digging downward after finding nothing he then digs in the hole to make it wider where he then finds a briefcase. After a short problem with how to get the briefcase out of the hole without causing a cave in. When they figured what to do the Warden,Mr.Pendanski, and Mr.Sir were standing their with a flashlight and

The Cay is a good book because of how Timothy and Phillip work together and they work together and their characteristics show that they become weak and curious with nothing to do then they start to become independent and brave.Reason why I say this is because in the story Chapter 3 states that “I couldn’t the tears back.Im sure he heard me,but he didn’t move a muscle of his face.” It also says that “ I stayed on the edge of the raft for a long time thinking about home and rubbing Stew Cat’s back.” Which meant that he misses his home back in Dutch West Indies.