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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Cay Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rather than just facts, questions about characters and their motivations...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/cay/q-and-a/book-cay-need-questions-2112</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Rather than just facts, questions about characters and their motivations are usually the most interesting. “Why” questions make you look deeper than the surface. Why did Phillip’s mother yell at him and then hug him right after that?Why was Phillip so prejudiced?Why does Phillip distrust Timothy at first?What does Phillip learn about Timothy’s education and why is this important?Why does Timothy slap Phillip?Phillip becomes blind as a...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Curacao is part of the ABC (Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao) islands off the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/cay/q-and-a/what-continent-curacao-2046</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Curacao is part of the ABC (Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao) islands off the coast of Venezuela which is in South America. It is not on a continent but part of the Netherlands Antilles, a group of islands. The setting beginning is Curacao but the island Aruba plays a part. Near the beginning of the book, we learn that German submarines attacked the neighboring island  of Aruba which is the smallest of the three islands. Curacao is the largest of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:16:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Young Phillip's impudence finally becomes too much for old Timothy in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Young Phillip's impudence finally becomes too much for old Timothy in Theodore Taylor's novel, The Cay. After arriving on the island, Timothy attempts to teach the now blind Phillip about self-reliance, beginning with how to weave a palm mat, but the boy's frustrations about their situation overcomes him.

    I tried again, but it didn't work. I stod up, threw the palm fibers at him, and screamed, "You ugly black man! I won't do it!...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:03:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why did Timothy slap Phillip in The Cay?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why did Timothy slap Phillip in The Cay?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:37:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Phillip Enright is a young boy living with his family in Willemstad, on...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Phillip Enright is a young boy living with his family in Willemstad, on the Dutch West Indies island of Curacao in Theodore Taylor's World War II novel, The Cay. The Enrights are Americans--young Phillip's mother is originally from Virginia--and the mother and son soon decide to leave the island due to the increased threat of attack by German U-boats. The father, also Phillip Enright, is an administator for Royal Dutch Shell Oil, and he must...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:34:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[True or false. Mr. Enright, Phillip's father is a British naval officer.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[True or false. Mr. Enright, Phillip's father is a British naval officer.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:09:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    As the war got closer to his home in Willemstad, Curacao, Phillip...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    As the war got closer to his home in Willemstad, Curacao, Phillip used to sneak out to St. Anna Bay in hopes of seeing something out of the ordinary. Then one night, in Theodore Taylor's novel, The Cay, it happened. The Empire Tern, an oil tanker bound for England, had just sailed from the harbor, and the sailors had waved back at Phillip as he signaled the "V for Victory" sign. Suddenly, "there was an explosion... the Empire...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:17:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What happened that made Phillip understand that the war was something...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What happened that made Phillip understand that the war was something that meant death and destruction in the novel, The Cay?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:52:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At first, phillip didn`t liked timothy!!!!!!!As he waz a black man!!
In...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At first, phillip didn`t liked timothy!!!!!!!As he waz a black man!!
In some places timothy behaved tooo rudely that phillip thought that his mother was rite!!!!!Black people r very different from them!!!!they r very stubborn!!!!!!!But timothy`s one slap changed phillip`s  life!!!!!!he respected timothy nd they became friends!!!!!!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:42:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Henrik van Boven is the best friend of the protagonist, Phillip...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Henrik van Boven is the best friend of the protagonist, Phillip Enright, in Theodore Taylor's novel, The Cay. Like young Phillip, Henrik is 11 years old, and both boys live in Willemstad, Curacao, in the Dutch West Indies. Henrik was born in Holland, and his father was a government official. Phillip and Henrik used to imagine they were pirates while playing at old Fort Amsterdam, but it soon became too dangerous to visit the fort...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:14:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Phillip Enright is a young man living in the Dutch West Indies...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Phillip Enright is a young man living in the Dutch West Indies who survives a shipwreck and is then blinded in the Theodore Taylor World War II novel, The Cay. Phillip's father is an oil company executive in Willemstad, Curacao. As German U-boats threaten the island, Phillip and his mother decide to head to safety in Miami. But their ship is torpedoed in April 1942, and the two are separated. After being hit on the head, Phillip...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Phillip comes from a family that is not particularly tolerant of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Phillip comes from a family that is not particularly tolerant of blacks in the Theodore Taylor novel, The Cay. Phillip's mother hails from Virginia, a state still mindful of Old South traditions in the 1940s, and she has instilled in Phillip a fear and mistrust of Negroes. When he first observes Timothy, Phillip describes him as "ugly," with a "flat" nose and "a mass of wiry gray hair." Phillip talks to Timothy in a condescending manner...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:30:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Timothy and Phillip become the shipwrecked odd couple of Theodore...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Timothy and Phillip become the shipwrecked odd couple of Theodore Taylor's novel, The Cay, when they climb aboard a raft and eventually make land after several days adrift. Because Phillip is not used to being around black people, he does not think highly of Timothy at first.

    I saw a huge, very old Negro sitting on the raft near me. He was ugly.

Phillip does not like Timothy's smell--it does not remind him of his mother. He...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:44:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How did Phillip feel about Timothy in the novel, The Cay?
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        <link>http://www.enotes.com/cay/q-and-a/how-did-phillip-feel-about-timothy-116767</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How did Phillip feel about Timothy in the novel, The Cay?
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Phillip Enright lives with his parents on the Dutch West Indies...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/cay/q-and-a/why-were-enrights-curacao-115989</link>
        <description><![CDATA[    Phillip Enright lives with his parents on the Dutch West Indies island of Curacao at the beginning of the Theodore Taylor novel, The Cay. He is American--his mother hails from Virginia--and his family is one of many that have come to this island off the coast of Venezuela to work at the oil refineries in and around the capital of Willemstad. Set in 1942, the oil reserves there are an important part of the World War II Allied...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:22:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why were the Enrights in Curacao in the novel,The Cay?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/cay/q-and-a/why-were-enrights-curacao-115989</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why were the Enrights in Curacao in the novel,The Cay?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:01:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    The shipwrecked inhabitants of Theodore Taylor's novel, The Cay,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    The shipwrecked inhabitants of Theodore Taylor's novel, The Cay, patiently await the impending hurricane that is nearing their otherwise uninhabited island. A breeze begins to blow, and Timothy spots dark clouds in the distance. The wind turns cool, and then it begins to rain. As the surf crashes in the background,

    I felt movement around my legs and feet. Things were slithering. I screamed to Timothy who shouted back, "B'nothin'...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    After floating for several days on a small raft following the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    After floating for several days on a small raft following the sinking of their ship in Theodore Taylor's novel, The Cay, Timothy sights a tiny island. It is uninhabited, but it provides Timothy and Phillip safety from the sharks who were ever-present alongside the raft. Timothy describes the isle:

"D'islan' is 'bout one mile long, an' a half wide, shaped like d'melon... D'rise is 'bout forty feet from here."

The beach is "about 40...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:17:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    After finally convincing her husband that it was safer for them...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    After finally convincing her husband that it was safer for them to be away from Willemstad, Mrs. Enright and her son, Phillip, boarded a ship bound for Miami in the Theodore Taylor novel, The Cay. Just 48 hours after leaving Panama, their ship, the S. S. Hato, was torpedoed by a German U-boat on April 6, 1942. As her mother calmly helped him on with his life jacket, a second explosion rocked the ship. With the captain urging the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:12:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Although World War II seemed so far away from the Enright's West...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Although World War II seemed so far away from the Enright's West Indian home in the Theodore Taylor novel, The Cay, Curacao was threatened by the possibility of German U-boat attacks because of the oil production facility on the island. The Germans had attacked "the big Labo oil refinery on Aruba" as early as February 1942. Tankers filled with crude from the neighboring Venezuelan oil fields and bound for the Allied war effort had...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:46:10 PST</pubDate>
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