The Cay

Jonothan was reading us a really old book called 'The Cay' by Theodore Taylor. It's about a boy called Phillip who lives in the time when world war 2 had started. At the time he lived on the islands of Curacao but his mother wanted to move to the USA. Their boat ended up being torpedoed by a German U-boat and Phillip got knocked out. He woke up on a raft with a black man called Timothy and the ships cat, stew cat. Phillip becomes blind on the ship and then they land on a island in the middle of a large reef/the devils mouth as some people know it. Later a cyclone hit the island and Timothy died protecting Phillip from the storm. Phillip got picked up by an american boat later and was given his sight back at the hospital. It was a great tale and I think it is based on a true story. The moral is pretty much DON'T BE RACIST!!!