christina gunyah Phillips journey

The cay- final essay

Christina gunyah
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The cay is a book in which a boy named Phillip has very difficult parents and his mother Mrs. Enright didn’t like the island because they were in world war two and they could be bombed so she was going to take her son Phillip away but while on the s.s hato (the boat they took) it was bombed and Phillip lost his mother he then ended up on a boat with a man named timothy who just happened to be black and Phillip was just a little prejudice so that was bad considering. Phillip and timothy didn’t get along at first Phillip thought that he was selfish because he wouldn’t give him more water but timothy was just trying to conserve water. Phillip became blind and he could not see anything so it was hard. They found a little island and went on it when they were still in sea they got a cat that they called stew cat and the cat was surely not liking the water so he stayed with the two boys. Timothy was thinking and saying they would surely be rescued in a few days and he was still having some doubts about it thow. Timothy then thought that they were in something called the devils mouth which was closed off from the sea and that they would just have to make a help sign out of rocks and timothy told Phillip to do it and they fought there was a day when they were making mats and Phillip called timothy a stupid old black man who doesn’t Evan know how to spell and timothy slapped him then Phillip knew that timothy wasn’t trying to seem like a bad man he was just trying to help and that he wasn’t against him because he said he was 70 something years old and there was a slight chance that he may not survive so he was just trying to help. He taught Phillip how to fish and all and Phillip sorta knew why he knew that timothy might be afraid and was getting Phillip ready. One morning timothy thought he heard someone shooting and then timothy told him it was the waves that they were warning them for the storm that was coming. Timothy thought stew cat was cursed so he made a voodoo cat of him just in case. Timothy knew the storm was coming and was worried he made things stronger and all so it would survive then one day the storm hit timothy protected Phillip and in the end died because he was old and so tired his body couldn’t take it timothy then knew why timothy had taught him all of this stuff he wanted a longosta so he went down to get one he said to stew cat if I don’t come up in 20 min come get me on his first dive he caught one then he searched for more he found a hole and decided that there would probably be a big one in there he took a big breath went under put his hand in and something bit him he pulled and it went out easily so he went up he screamed when he broke the water he decided that it must have been the moray eel that bit him one morning he woke up and he heard a helicopter it sounded like but when he finally got the fire started he listened and it was gone he thought about it and he needed oil to make black smoke then a few days later he heard another he could Evan feel wind he got the fire started after some miner complications and then the plane left he was sad and he thought he was never going to get saved but in the morning he heard a familiar bell and want outside and there was a boat he put a knife that timothy had and he was saved along with stew cat people were asking questions and it was aggravating in the end timothy gets his eyesight back and he hangs out with people who knew timothy he was sad still he lost a great friend and a good mentor he was going to go back to the island that he and timothy called theres he wouldn’t know it by sight but he would close his eyes and know it was his he would visit timothy’s grave and he would know that he taught him something well and he was so thankful for that of he might of died