The Cay

In our class we have been doing alot of work on one story- The Cay. It is a moving and thrilling story about a boy called Philip who lives on an island, that is being attacked by German U-boats. He and his mother try to leave for Miami, the ship that they leave on is shot and sank by a torpedo. Philip scrambles onto a life raft and ends up blind, floating out at sea with a black man that he doesn't even know. The way Philip was brought up by his mother, is horrible because she was racist so Philip was too, so he didn't trust the black man (called Timothy). They ended up on a little, unidentified island so they make shelter, and a water catch. Timothy knows that he is old and will get weaker and weaker, day by day so even though Philip is blind Timothy tries to train Philip to do things for himself more. Sure enough, one day on the Cay (hey that rhymes!) a huge storm came upon the Philip and Timothy, and Timothy dies protecting Philip. Philip is later on picked up by an old schooner, and is fixed up. Having surgery made his vision come back. Racism is wrong and this story tells you that.