Characters
This character was born in the Virgin Islands (owned by the United States) but grew up moving around the West Indies.
Who is Timothy?
This is the name of the island where the story begins.
What is Curacao?
This is the event which causes Phillip to go blind.
What is The Hato getting torpedoed?
What is being struck over the head by a piece of debris?
This form of reviewing a work involves no opinions, just the facts.
What is an objective summary?
An example of this figurative device is:
“Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the darkness of the sea, the German submarines arrived in the middle of the night…”
What is a simile?
This character was born in Virginia (United States) but moved to Curacao with his parents when he was young.
Who is Phillip Enright?
This is the year in which the story takes place.
What is 1942?
This is one way that Timothy helps Phillip move around the island while blind.
What is a cane?
What is a rope made of vines?
What are posts along the shore?
This form of reviewing a work involves both the facts as well as opinions about what the work means.
What is an interpretation?
An example of this literary device is:
“The S.S. Hato took her first bite of open sea…”
What is personification?
This character wants to leave Curacao and return to the United States to escape the war. (extra points for full name)
Who is Mrs. Enright/Grace Enright?
This is the resource which the Germans are after and which Phillip's father is on the island to help with.
What is oil?
This is the illness that Timothy catches while on the cay.
What is Malaria?
The Cay tells the story of a young American boy stranded on an island with a West Indian man and an old cat. Together, they must find a way to survive the tiny island.
What is an objective summary?
An example of this figurative device is:
"His pink-purple lips peeled back over them like the meat of a conch shell."
What is a simile?
This character is a dutch boy who lives on the colony island of Curacao. (Full name)
Who is Henrik Van Boven?
This is the country who owns the colony island on which the story begins.
What is The Netherlands?
This is the creature that attacks Phillip in the water hole. (Extra points for species)
What is a moray eel?
In The Cay, Theodore Taylor uses the relationship between Timothy and Phillip to teach his readers to look deeper than the skin, and to appreciate that every life is precious.
What is an interpretation?
An example of this figurative device is:
"The wind roared and snarled as it clawed at us."
What is personification?
This character rescues Phillip from a flock of angry birds.
Who is Stew Cat?
This is the name of the chain of cays and islands in which Timothy, Phillip and Stew Cat are stranded.
What is The Devil's Mouth?
This is the plant that Phillip uses to fix his signal fire.
What is sea grape?
In The Cay, Stew Cat represents the unspoken power of friendship. Though he cannot respond to Phillip's words, his very presence is a comfort, and he gives Phillip the strength to carry on even when Timothy is gone.
What is an interpretation?
An example of this figurative device is:
"His teeth made an alabaster trench in his mouth."
What is a metaphor?