Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Literature Circle: The Cay: Summarize

The Cay is about in the early World War II, eleven year old Phillips lives with his mother and father on the island of Curacao, off the cost of Venezuela. When a neighboring island is attacked by German Submarines. Phillip's mother, wanted to travel back with his son to her home in Virgina. A German U-boat torpedoes the freighter. Phillip is separated from his mother and thrown over board; as he falls, and something fell to his head. When he wakes, he finds himself in a wooden raft with a West Indian man called Timothy, and a stowaway cat. Phillip's mom always told him that black people are "different." While they are in the raft, looking for land, Phillip's head injury render to him blind. Phillip dislike Timothy and was racism. They later got to a land and stayed. When a violent hurricane hits the island, and Timothy saved he young boy and Timothy died...!!

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