| Booktalk
#1
Phillip's life starts off fairly
routine. During World War II, his father is a petroleum engineer on Curacao
. He goes to school, has school buddies and asks a lot of why questions.
When his mom decides life would be safer back in Virginia, she boards a
liner with Phillip. A shipwreck washes Phillip up on a raft with an old,
very old, Timothy, a Caribbean shiphand who has a lot to show Phillip to
prepare him for survival on the uninhabited island too small to be even
a speck on the map of Devil's Mouth area.
Booktalk #2
What would you do if you got
stuck on island with a stranger? Well that’s what happened in the book,
the Cay. A boy named Phillip gets in a shipwreck. He gets knocked
into the water and an old black ship hand, Timothy, pulls him aboard a
raft. They drift away into the Ocean. During this time Phillip becomes
blind, but they eventually find an island.
On the island Timothy
became the most important teacher Phillip has ever had. He teaches Phillip
how to see without his vision. He taught Phillip how to feed himself and
walk freely around the island without him watching his ever move. On the
island they set up a signal fire just incase a boat or an aircraft passed.
I don't like to read
much but, this book really got me hooked. I couldn't wait to see what was
going to happen next. I was surprised by all the twist in the book. I recommend
this book to people who like drama and adventure books. Boys and girls
would both like this book and, I think most people would enjoy this book.
(Evan, K-12 student)
Booktalk #3
The Cay is about Philip a young
boy being saved by timothy a Jamaican man from a ship wreck when Philip
wakes up he finds himself with timothy on a piece of driftwood in the middle
of the ocean. Eventually they are washed up on the island of the Cay.
There Timothy and Philip face
obstacles such as malaria, thirst, hunger, weather, and for young Philip
blindness. Then one day a hurricane sweeps across the island causing something
terrible to happen. |
