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This example power point is based on Theodore Taylor and his novel The Cay

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The Cay, Taylor's story of a racially prejudiced white boy stranded with a black man, has become perhaps the most beloved of his young adult novels. It took only three weeks to complete, and has seen worldwide sales in the millions. Taylor based the character of the boy in his book on a childhood playmate. "The one thing I remembered about [him] was that his mother had taught him to hate black people and to hate them with a passion,"

4. Lost Theodore Taylor ------- June 23, 1921 – October 26, 2006
He lived in Statesville, North Carolina
During World War II, he first served as a cadet-AB seaman on a gasoline tanker, first of four merchant ships; then became a naval officer in the Pacific Theater. He was recalled to active duty a few months after the Korean War began, stationed in the Caribbean.

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Theodore Taylor
He began writing at the age of thirteen, covering high school sports events for the Portsmouth, Virginia, Evening Star. His short stories and novelettes have appeared in Redbook, McCall’s, Ladies Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, Argosy, Alfred Hitchcock’s Magazine and others.
Theodore Taylor loved ocean fishing and world travel. For the latter he was joined by wife Flora, who also assisted in research projects. They made their residence in a "house in the woods" in Laguna Beach, California.
Theodore Taylor passed away on October 26, 2006.

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SYMBOLISM
BLINDNESS - When our main character Phillip is thrown off the S.S. Hato in Chapter 3, a mast hits his head and he is left blind. Phillip's blindness sparks his personal transformation and functions as one of the book's most important metaphors.
TEMPEST OR HURRICANE - A tempest is a tropical storm with major rain and high winds. You might have heard of these storms by a different name: a hurricane. Hurricanes are common in the Caribbean, the setting of The Cay. The hurricane in the novel is not just a natural phenomenon, though. Sure it's a storm, but it's also a metaphor that represents the violence of the natural world. We learn that nature can be pretty terrible, battering away at the island and the people on it.
SHARKS - Sharks are natural predators in the ocean, and they play a minor role in The Cay. The animals generate suspense and a sense of danger when Timothy and Phillip are floating on the raft, not to mention when Phillip falls into the water in Chapter 6. The image of the shark also gets connected to that of the Nazis, as in this quote from the first line of the book:
Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the darkness of the sea, the German submarines arrived in the middle of the night. (1.1)
Taylor compares the violence of the natural world to that of humans, suggesting that the two are perhaps linked.

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SYMBOLISM
COCONUT TREE - The coconut tree is a trial Phillip must face. He's afraid to climb the tree because he's blind, but he does so for the hungry Timothy's sake.
Squatting near me, his teeth crunching the coconut, Timothy said, "You see, Phill-eep, you do not need d'eye now. You 'ave done widout d'eye what I couldn't do wid my whole body."
It was almost as if I'd graduated from the survival course that Timothy had been putting me through since we landed on the cay. ( )
Phillip's climbing the tree tells us that he has reached a certain level of maturation. He is acting as a provider for Timothy now; he has conquered his fears and can survive on his own.
ISLAND ANIMALS - The animals on the island are fighting for survival just like Phillip and Timothy. In their behavior, we see echoes of human behavior. Phillip's interactions with these animals become a metaphor for the human relationships we see in the backdrop of War World II. For example, when Phillip invades the nesting grounds of the birds, they attack him. Just as the animals on the island have to defend themselves against intruders (Phillip), the people of the Caribbean must defend themselves from the invading Germans.

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HISTORICAL SIGNIFIGENCE
Curacao is a Dutch island in the Caribbean Sea. It is sixty kilometers north of the coast of Venezuela. During World War II ( ) it became important because most of the oil which was exported from Venezuela passed through its port, Willemstad, and was also processed at the island’s large oil refinery. This oil was very important to Britain, which was at war with Nazi Germany. After Hitler declared war on the United States in December 1941, the Germans sent their submarines into the Caribbean to destroy as many oil tankers and other merchant ships as possible, before they could reach Britain. The submarines arrived in January 1942, and quickly began to sink ships. They also attacked Curacao and its neighboring islands with their guns, to damage the oil refineries.

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In the late 1960s in the United States, black people, although they had been legally free for a hundred years, were still heavily discriminated against, especially in the South. They were not given the same chances in employment, and had to go to different schools from whites and even sit in different sections of buses. There was a growing opposition to this policy among blacks and among liberal whites. One of the greatest leaders of the ‘civil rights’ movement was the black Baptist preacher, Dr. Martin Luther King. On 4th April 1968, in Memphis Tennessee, he was shot by a gunman, and black people all across the country rioted. They were grief-stricken and angry at the loss of the man who had given them hope. Theodore Taylor wrote The Cay that year, and dedicated it ‘To Dr. King’s dream’.

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THEMES
RACE - Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that people would be judged not by the color of their skin, but on the content of their character. Theodore Taylor explores a similar dream in The Cay. He begins with a main character – an 11-year-old white boy named Phillip – who has bigoted views on race. Once Phillip goes blind, he is forced to depend upon a black West Indian man named Timothy to navigate the world around him. Needless to say, his worldview changes dramatically.
Friendship - We're usually friends with people with whom we have things in common: people in our homeroom class, people on our sports team, people who play the same games that we do... But what about people who are different from us? On the surface, Phillip and Timothy could hardly be more different. Phillip is an 11-year-old American. Timothy is an older West Indian man who was orphaned and never learned how to read or write. Despite their differences, these two individuals create friendship based on mutual respect and love.
Nature vs. Man - We see different relationships to the natural world through the book's two main characters. Phillip's understanding of nature reflects his background: he's attended school and has some understanding of science. He can speak intelligently about volcanoes and coral reefs from his reading about them in books. Timothy, on the other hand, has no schooling and is very superstitious. He attributes bad luck to Stew Cat, for example. He does, though, have years of direct experience with nature and knows how to survive on his own in the wild.

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