In the beginning of The Cay our friend Phillip is two things. He is innocent and afraid. When he becomes blind later in the book he learns to be independent and brave. I m going to explain which three of these things he is mostly throughout the book. He is mostly innocent, afraid and independent. In the beginning of the book Phillip was innocent. To be innocent is to not know things. Phillip didn’t know the danger of living in a war zone and why they didn’t fight back. He didn’t realize that he could be killed on spot. He also didn’t realize that they didn’t have the weapons to fight back so it made it that more dangerous. When Phillip realized he had went blind he was afraid. To be afraid is when you are scared of something. He was afraid
