However, this plays into why he's superstitious, as he never went to school. Book Dumb: Timothy is pretty knowledgeable with fishing, shelter building, and surviving without the usual comforts but he's really fascinated with Philip's knowledge about islands.Later, he has surgeries and gets his sight back. Bittersweet Ending: Philip (with Stew Cat) is rescued from the Devil's Mouth, eventually, but it's after Timothy succumbed to his injuries from the hurricane and he's left to survive without him.If you're thirsty, it's a sign that you need water. As any survival expert will tell you: water is a person's single most pressing need, as the human body needs a certain amount of water to function properly consuming less than that amount can cause a plethora of health complications, which makes it far less likely that a person will survive long enough to make it back to civilization. Artistic License – Biology: Deliberately under-consuming water to make your supply last longer is actually a terrible survival strategy.Animal Motif: Briefly, Philip compares the German submarines' arrival to hungry sharks.In 1993, Theodore Taylor released Timothy of the Cay, a prequel centered around Timothy. They make their way to an island in the Devil's Mouth region of the Caribbean.Īt first, Philip and Timothy don't really get along, as Philip doesn't really have the best view of black people like Timothy. Hato gets torpedoed and a blinded Philip gets stranded with an elderly guy named Timothy and a cat named Stew Cat. When they're on their way back to the US, the S.S. Philip didn't want to go but with German submarines around Curaçao, his mom insisted. It's WWII and Philip Enright and his mom, Grace, are going back home to Virginia. The Cay is a 1969 novel by Theodore Taylor
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