Phillip doesn't want to eat the raw fish, but Timothy starts sucking on his right away.Timothy catches one, skins it, and gives the two biggest pieces to Phillip to eat. The day passes and the flying fish begin to jump around on the sea.Phillips starts to think that maybe he agrees with his racist mother – who is not so much a fan of all the black people on Curaçao.He's a stubborn guy, and says they have to conserve water. Phillip gets snotty and starts complaining, but Timothy won't budge. Timothy will only give Phillip a little drink.Phillip introduces himself as well and asks for water to drink from the keg on the raft. He asks the man his name and learns that it's Timothy.When he wakes up, his head hurts more than ever. The old man builds a flimsy shelter from some pieces of raft and their clothes.Phillip gets seasick and pukes over the side. The old man introduces him to the cat, Stew. Phillip is pretty freaked out, so he has himself a good cry.
He talks with a thick West Indian accent and calls Phillip "young bahss " (3.12). The old man tells Phillip he pulled him aboard the raft and doesn't know exactly where the others are.Several hours later, Phillip opens his eyes to find himself on a boat with a "very old N****" whom Phillip thinks is pretty "ugly" (his word, not ours), and the cook's cat named Stew (3.14).Crash, boom, smash! Something hits Phillip from above.Phillip and his mom are handed into a lifeboat, but when the boat is lowered, everyone is plunged into the water. Mother calmly leads Phillip out onto the deck where the captain is giving orders.As you probably guessed, a torpedo does indeed hit Phillip's ship early in the morning on April 6, 1942.As the two come to depend on each other to survive, racist ideas that Phillip inherited from his mother are challenged, and the two castaways - now friends - divide their efforts between sustaining themselves and trying to signal to any overhead aircraft that they need to be rescued. The pair end up on a small cay (or key) on an unpopulated island, where they erect a shelter and catch fish to eat. He finds himself stranded with a Black man named Timothy, who cares for Phillip and teaches him lessons in survival and resilience. The ship that takes Phillip and his mother from the island is, in fact, torpedoed, and Phillip is separated from his mother. However, his mother is afraid for their safety and decides to take Phillip back to the United States, though Phillip's father believes the journey will not be safe. A young American boy, Phillip Enright, lives on the island with his parents, and he at first seems to imagine the war like a game. THE CAY takes place on the Dutch island of Curacao during World War II.
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