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mvampiress666
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High School - 9th Grade

Describe how Phillip became separated from his mother in the Theodore Taylor novel, The Cay.

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Posted by mvampiress666 on Wednesday October 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM and tagged with description, mother, phillip, plot, separation, the cay.

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  1. bullgatortail
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        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 passengers to man the life boats,

    ...the Hato lurched heavily and something happened to the boat falls.
        The bow tilted downward, and the next thing I knew we were all in the water. I saw my mother near me and yelled to her. Then something hit me from above.

    When Phillip awoke four hours later, he was sharing a raft with an old Negro man and a black and gray cat. His mother was nowhere to be seen.

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    Posted by bullgatortail on Wednesday November 11, 2009 at 8:12 PM