The Cay Book Vs Movie

“Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the darkness of the sea, the German submarines arrived in the middle of the night” The movie never had this line in it. The movie starts on the boat and in the book it starts on the island where this line is. That's why I like the book better than the movie in The Cay by Theodore Taylor. When on the raft for the movie it skips a part of the story which makes Phillip and Timothy closer the part of the book when Phillip falls into the water and gets chased by sharks. The movie has much less detail. As well as this also, it doesn’t say that Philip was scared on the island before, or that by climbing the palm tree Phillip completes Timothy's survival course. The book has parts that are important to the