The Cay

Have you ever felt as if you were changing as you solved a conflict in your life? Theodore Taylor wrote a novel titled, The Cay in which the main character, Phillip, develops positive character traits through the conflict he faces. Phillip is a boy who is in the midst of World War II and becomes isolated on a lonely cay with an intelligent black man. In The Cay, Phillip’s character reveals that through many conflicts, he has developed independence, wisdom, and matureness. Phillip demonstrates independence after experiencing blindness as evidenced in the novel when he was able to survive on the cay after Timothy’s death. At the beginning of the novel Phillip was dependent on everyone around him. In the novel Phillip’s mother states, “ ‘You’ll…

In The Cay, Phillip’s character reveals that through many conflicts he developed care, determination, and contentment. Phillip demonstrates care after experiencing loss as evidence in the novel when Timothy dies and Phillip reflects on all of the things Timothy had done for him. At the beginning of the novel Phillip acted selfish and only focused on himself. You can see him being selfish when they are first on the raft and he wants the water. Timothy wants to save the water for later saying on,…

Is it true? Are you the one? Were you stuck on a island by yourself? In the book, The Cay by Theodore Taylor there is a young man whose name is Phillip. In the book Phillip’s character reveals that many conflicts he had help developed intelligence, independence, and his thankfulness. At first though he had trouble doing all theses things he would’ve never had done if he didn’t get stuck on a island. Phillip is a eleven year old boy who lived in Willemstad on the island of Curacao. Since…

helps me organize and plan more effectively for example, if I work saturday and sunday and I know I have a test coming up that monday I will pick a date about a week ahead of time to start studying for the test. This is a way to guarantee that I’ll be fully prepared for the test because I would have learned the material instead of just memorizing it the night before. Results have shown that students that tend to wait last minute on studying for tests do worst than those that start studying a…

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…

This story picks up at the end of the story ‘The Cay” It’s about what happens to Phillip Enright and Stew Cat when Timothy dies in the Hurricane. That night of the cold, windy, rainy Hurricane Timothy and I had been tied up to a Palm Tree. The wind was blowing with all force behind it me and Timothy ha to hang on for our life. Then just like that the wind was calm like the ocean breeze I had asked Timothy what was happing he replayed it’s the eye of the storm young bass. The worst is…

There are many things that I can chose to represent Timothy from the novel The Cay. I chose the hands holding the heart to describe Timothy. I chose this because Timothy was caring for Phillip and Stew Cat. I chose this item because I thought that Timothy was kind to Phillip when he was blind, and trying to help him survive threw his blindness.I chose the heart for Timothy because he was always caring for Phillip. I choose the two mountain climbers to describe Timothy as well. I chose this item…

one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” ~Reverend Dr. Martin King Jr. This inspirational quote sums of the meaning of The Cay, because it is the basis of the valuable life lessons Phillip (a caucasian boy of eleven) learned from Timothy (a black man of about seventy). At the start, Phillip falls overboard from the ship and he gets stranded on a raft with Timothy without his mother. As Phillip’s sight begins…

The Cay: Argumentative Essay Are learning survival skills a critical part of growing up? One will come to believe that survival skills are a crucial part of growing up, especially after reading more than half the book of The Cay by Theodore Taylor, a children’s novel, in this book, we encounter a pair of survivors escaping WWII, who land on an abandoned, remote island with no people around to help them get back to civilization. Here, they need to depend on their survival skills, similar to…

In The Cay Philips’s character reveals throughout many conflicts he developed Kindness,Independence, and Strength. Philip demonstrates kindness after experiencing blindness as evidenced in the novel when he learns that he he is now dependant on Timothy and becomes more of a friend to Timothy. In the beginning of The Cay Philip is racist, when he first sees Timothy after waking up on the raft he describes him as ugly and black. In the novel Philip says “We talked for a long time…