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Timothy Of The Cay (2005)

Timothy of the Cay (2005)

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0380725223 (ISBN13: 9780380725229)
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Timothy Of The Cay Chapters 1-16Timothy is little, he finally got a job on a boat as the cleaner because the old one fell off a ladder. Timothy buys new shoes and races down to the dock with Tante Hannah but the ship is gone! A white boy had taken his job and the ship had left earlier than Timothy was told. After the word gets around that his ship left with out him Mama Geeches, a jumbi ridder, comes to his house and says that the next ship that he goes on will be goat mouth(bad luck.)if he doesn't pay her two dollars to rid the house of jumbi.(like black magic)Timothy doesn't pay! Timothy soons gets a job on a boat called the Bark Gertrude Theismann.Phillip is older now. He has just gotten back from the cay and is bombarded with questions. He is soon returned to his parents and many X rays are taken in Curacao. Phillip is frustrated when he gets back home because he keeps bumping in to things and his mother is babying him and watching his every move. He goes to see a doctor and that doctor expaines what would probably happen to Phillip if he decides to undergo surgery to hopefully see again. Phillip is also taken to the doctor who would preform the surgery. He said that it is possible but the odds are not exactly in his favor. Phillip's Father leaves it up to Phillip to make the final decision if he wants the surgery or not. Phillip decides to get the surgery! What will happen?Timothy Of The Cay Chapters 17-27Timothy is now around sixty. He had a boat but he had to sell it. He took a ship to the Hettie Redd a boat of a dead friend, got a crew, and atempted to sail it back home with a dead guy in it but as Timothy suspected the ocean gods got mad, created a hurricane and sunk the ship. Timothy survived but the whole crew died. He went back to his home and got on another ship to work. The ship is called the Hato, the ship that Timothy was on when they where torpedoed. His story ends when Timothy swims to the raft.Phillip goes into surgery and wakes up. He is greatfull that he did not die on the operating table but is frustrated that he cannot see yet. He doesn't see anything untill one day when he sees trees and the sun and bushes but it is just an hallusination and he cannot really see. One morning he opens his eyes to see a bright orange light... the sun! He jumps out of bed and goes to the window, he can see lights and cars and buildings! HE CAN SEE! He twirls around and runs through the halls of the hospital, the nurse calls his parents and they come as fast as they can. All the dad says is "Oh, Thank God!". They go home and are on their way to find the cay very soon! They travel on a ship and find a tour guide on another island that they stop at to lead then to the cay. The finally find the cay and the hut is still there! so is Timothy's grave! Phillip says "This b'dat outrageous cay, eh' Timothy?" and he hears Timothy's voice say "Dis be it Phill-eep..." and then it says, I wasn't dreaming. I don't know if Timothy really wasn't dead or if it was just his imagination. Very good book, I recommend reading it after you read the cay!

This book has already gotten off to an amazing start! I know a lot of people wanted to read this for the groups, I'm glad I got a chance to read this with my friends!!! I know this book was already on a lot of peoples lists to read but I totally recommend it any way!!!! The two stories switch every chapter!! Just enough to really feel what both characters are going through and to keep you wanting to read more!!! I know everyone loved the Cay!!! It was an amazing book that this author wrote!!!! When young Timothy gets a job as a cabin boy his amazing adventure begins!!! I'm excited to see how that part turns out!!!! It is yet to come. When healing Philip returns home I am also excited to see the change in his life and how maybe just maybe he will get his sight back!!! The changes these characters face put them through a lot of hard obstacles!!! I'm looking forward to find out what those obstacles they must over come are!!!

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Several years ago, we read and I reviewed Theodore Taylor’s earlier novel, The Cay, set in 1942, in which a young white boy, eleven year old Phillip, and an old black man, seventyish Timothy, are stranded for three months on a small sandy cay in the Caribbean Sea following the torpedoing by a German U-boat of the S. S. Hato on which they were sailing. Phillip was blinded by flying debris, and Timothy taught him how to survive before dying. It is a very worthwhile book. Timothy of the Cay is referred to as a “prequel-sequel” which tells the rest of their tale in alternating chapters. Beginning with Phillip’s rescue, it follows the boy, now twelve, and his parents as they visit doctors who talk of operations which might restore his sight and give him the opportunity of going to view the cay with his own eyes. Also, it goes back to show the early life of Timothy Gumbs and how, as a young man growing up in Back o’ All on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, he desired to became a seaman and eventually captain of his own boat. Did Timothy make his dream a reality? Will Phillip ever see again? And can he achieve his goal of visiting the cay? In a gentle way, the book deals with the subject of racial prejudice, and it also demonstrates the qualities of courage and tenacity. The “d” word is used a couple of times, unnecessarily so in my estimation, and there is one reference to drinking rum. Some younger readers may find the going back and forth between Phillip and Timothy a little confusing. However, we did this as a family read aloud, and everyone agreed that it was an interesting account. My edition has a “Reader Chat Page” in the back with some thought questions about the story.
—Wayne S.

This book is about a young boy named Phillip who lost his eye sight years ago. At first Phillip was very apprehensive to let the black man named Timothy become his friend, his savior, but after he leaves the island and after Timothy dies he can't stop thinking about him. He also still talkes to him and still lookes for advice from him even though heis dead.My favorite part of this book is when Phillip gets his eye sight back and gose to the "cay" where he was stranded. I like this part because the whole time he was stranded there he was compleatly blind and he could't see what he was living on. Also he was able to be close to Timothy again.
—Bryer

There were a lot of great parts in this Survival book "Timothy Of The Cay" by Theodore Taylor.This was a sequel of the survival book "the Cay" where two people get stranded on an island for several months until timothy the adult passes away he leaves Phillip on the island by himself on the treacherous island. This book was all about Timothy's childhood through segregation which is the main conflict in the book.This book taught me what its like to be truly human, with everything that timothy went through he still had a blast with life he was very street smart int his book. This book is recommended to people who like books about segregation and historical fiction.
—Michael Stakits

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