At the beginning of the book we see Phillip is very judgmental about the black people just like his mother. Later Philip meets an old man named Timothy who takes him of Curacao with the mother's permission. After they leave the Curacao the boat gets blown up by german U Boats and they get stuck on a raft.After the explosion Philip is Blinded from the explosion and cant see but Timothy helps him but they also get frustrated at each other. Later in the book we can see Phillip being welcoming to Timothy. We can see Phillip and Timothy talking to each other about their childhood.Phillip falls asleep on Timothy and the Timothy falls asleep.After Phillip experiences the hurricane he becomes less scared of the island after watching Timothy die and
Both the book and the movie show that the story mostly took place on the cay.But the movie started with Phillip on the boat with his mother and when the story started Phillip and his mother had not left yet.Both the story and the movie and the movie described the boat Timothy and his mother was on.But the movie described it differently than the book.
Just like Jesus, Phillip came to aid people but instead just got tossed aside and sent back to where he came from. Tom brought Phillip to aid the people of the farm, and he did, but to Tom's parents, his help was not sufficient, so Phillip was tossed aside and sent back to where he came from, just like Jesus had been. Tom's father can illustrate this for us when he says, "I'm taking him back to town…He tried hard enough…" (Ross 234). According to Tom's father he tried relativly hard enough, but it was just inadequate so we are taking him back. This is also not fair when it comes to Phillip. Phillip tried hard, but that was still not good enough. Just like Jesus who tries hard to get the people to be enlightened and to embrace God, but was instead punished for it. Thus showing how Phillip and Jesus Christ can, in a way be the same
... harsh and tragic. Similarly, Hodgins symbolizes a life full of hardships in Portuguese Creek with the death of Elizabeth, for she had been the only good thing that had come out of the war. The positives of the families and communities working together were ultimately overshadowed by the negativity of these same families and communities falling apart; only further showing readers that new beginnings are not a chance for a better life, but center stage for one that is worse.
Although the main character in the book was white, the author, Sue Kidd, does a great job of depicting the African American culture during the time. Whether it was Rosaleen getting beat up in jail, or Zach dreaming of being a lawyer, this book showed you what it was like being a minority during a time when rights where still being fought for. One of the smaller conflicts in the story was a man verses man conflict, when Lily and Zach started to like each other. Though they knew that a colored man, and a white girl could never be together, they both were attracted to each other. Were they not from different cultures, people would have been fine with them dating, but because Zach was black, it couldn?t work out.
Analysis of Paul's Case by Willa Cather. Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case” is a story about a young 16 year-old man, Paul, who is motherless and alienated. Paul’s lack of maternal care has led to his alienation. He searches for the aesthetics in life that he doesn’t get from his yellow wallpaper in his house and his detached, overpowering father figure in his life. Paul doesn’t have any interests in school and his only happiness is in working at Carnegie Hall and dreams of one day living the luxurious life in New York City.
It also deals with the emotions that this black boy faces because he has been treated unfairly by the white people. Major Characters: Jefferson, black boy who is accused of a crime and sentenced to death; Grant Wiggons, teacher sent to help Jefferson. After he went and obtained a college degree, Grant Wiggins went back to live with his grandmother. Being that he is a very educated person, Grant was elected by his grandmother to try and get Jefferson to realize that he was a man and not an animal like the white people had led him to believe. Throughout the entire novel, Grant is battling this idea in his head because he doesn’t feel that even he knows what it is to be a man.
Aquinas, St. Thomas. COMMENTARY on SAINT PAUL'S EPISTLE to the GALATIANS. Trans. F. R. Larcher. Albany: Magi Books, 1996.
A major, vital element in any adventure novel is the inclusion of a hero or heroine. In The Cay, Phillip is the hero. This twelve-year-old boy is the main character in the story, and his struggle for survival is portrayed as the main problem in the book. Phillip is “made” by the author, Taylor, into a character a Deer Creek seventh-grader, or any other American middle-schooler, can relate to. The aspect of Phillip that is the easiest to relate to ...
The first trait Phillip displays in the book is his naiveness. I believe so because in the first chapter on page ten, Phillip says he is “... terribly excited.” and that “War was something
In the beginning, when they were first on the island, Philip was still blind so he wasn’t adapted to the island at all, so he couldn’t do much. Timothy did let Philip rest, but he was still doing a lot of work by himself. On page 58 Timothy says, “Cotch me breath, den I will tour d’islan’, an’ select a place for d’camp…” Timothy shows that he is tired, yet he is still willing to tour the whole island and build a camp for them, while Philip doesn’t do anything. Timothy was also going down to the reef to catch langosta for the both of them, quite frequently. Finally, in chapter nine he attempts to weave the sleeping mats, and instead of trying, he gave up and yelled at Timothy. After a while Philip continued to weave the sleeping mats, and completed the task successfully. After the death of Timothy, Philip had to do everything himself if he wanted to be rescued and taken home. So, he worked his hardest in order to make a signal for any passing schooner’s or airplanes. In chapter eighteen, Philip finally figured out an efficient way in order to signal the plane. “If I heard an aircraft, I’d start a fire and then throw bundles of sea grapes into it until I was sure a strong signal was going up from the island.” This shows that Philip had been trying multiple different methods to grasp the attention of a passing schooner or airplane.
The short story, “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather, opens with a young boy called before his high school principal and teachers. They are unable to discern exactly what the boy’s problem is but they know that his offenses are many and that, mainly, he annoys them. He is bored with school and hates his shabby room at home and his middle-class neighbors and the street where he lives. Paul’s real love, his only true mental and spiritual life, seems to be realized in the glamour and color of the world of theater and music. Paul creates for himself a fantasy life that forces him to lie continuously. His need for the “fairy tale” world that he tasted “behind the scenes” drives him to a plan that seems obvious to him and not even a struggle for him
Russell Bank’s “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat” is a short story about a young lady and a young man that are having the difficulty of deciding to keep a baby or have it aborted. The story starts off having the readers unknowing of who the main characters are at all, until the story goes on more. Once we figure out the main characters the story goes into the man and women getting in a green rowboat to go to this island to “fish”. They get to the island and talk about their baby problem. She already makes up her mind saying she is going to have an abortion and his opinion was different. The island is the scene of the story that makes up the character 's behavior in the story.
“Acceptance of each other's differences is the key to change”.In the novel Phillip does not really get along or understand Timothy,but once he listened to what Timothy had to say the began to become close.At first he would have that kind of connection with an “ugly black man”
In "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, Paul becomes aware of the fact that his life is not exactly what could be called "liveable." His physical home leaves something to be desired, his teachers clearly dislike him, and his father is not the "model" father. Paul feels that these things are unjust and detrimental to his life. Due to the unjust things in his life, he decides to rid himself of them by running away. Later on when he decides to kill himself, he showcases his possession of the cardinal virtues. Paul's decision to kill himself is just, and therefore moderate, wise, and courageous.
In "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, a young man named Paul is unhappy with his home and school life. He is happiest when he is at Carnegie Hall, where he works as an usher. When he is not physically at Carnegie Hall, his thoughts remain there causing his school work to suffer. When his father finds out about his problems in school he has Paul banned from Carnegie Hall, taken out of school, and put to work. One day, while on his way to make the company's deposit, Paul decides to take some of the money and go to New York to experience the life he feels he was destined for. Unable to cope with the punishment for taking the money he commits suicide. The central idea in this story is that it takes patience and perseverance to accomplish your dreams, and you should not give up on them.