The Cay Book Vs Movie Analysis
While having the option to read the novel, The Cay or watch the movie, The Cay I would rather read the book. I believe the book, by Theodore Taylor, is better because of the fact that there is far more details of the adventure that Phillip and Timothy had in the book than in the movie, produced by Walter Seltzer. I also can see in the movie that there is a very low budget for the movie. I also believe that the fact that you can read Philip's mind it makes that story that much better and shows how much prejudice has to do with the whole story, while in the movie you never really know how prejudice Phillip is. It is almost like the movie was cut to the raft, sped through on the raft, told the whole story for the most part of while on the cay,
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The first is the fact that there is no plane flying above them when on the raft. This was pretty important because this gave Phillip the first real sign of hope. I know this is in the book because the author writes, “I listened. Yes, there was a far-off engine sound coming in faintly above the slap of the sea. Then I could hear Timothy moving around. Tis an aircraft, he said”(Taylor 49). However in the movie this event never happened. They skip right from the day that Phillip went blind to the day that Timothy sees land. Although this might seem like it had no effect in the movie it did in the book and Phillip reflected on that moment many times while stuck on the cay. Another detail that was just overlooked was that fact that in the book Timothy thought that Stew Cat was bad luck. In fact Theodore Taylor almost dedicated a full chapter just about Stew Cat being bad luck. A piece of evidence is when the page reads, “...Timothy, Stew Cat is not a jumbi. You let him alone. The old man was silent, and I was suddenly worried for Stew Cat’s safety” (Taylor 86). Yet again, in the movie nothing like this ever happens. Timothy never has a problem with Stew Cat and they get along great. In the book, the fact that Timothy had a problem with Stew created a internal conspiracy for Timothy. This was talked about many times in the book however, just ignored in the
The first is the fact that there is no plane flying above them when on the raft. This was pretty important because this gave Phillip the first real sign of hope. I know this is in the book because the author writes, “I listened. Yes, there was a far-off engine sound coming in faintly above the slap of the sea. Then I could hear Timothy moving around. Tis an aircraft, he said”(Taylor 49). However in the movie this event never happened. They skip right from the day that Phillip went blind to the day that Timothy sees land. Although this might seem like it had no effect in the movie it did in the book and Phillip reflected on that moment many times while stuck on the cay. Another detail that was just overlooked was that fact that in the book Timothy thought that Stew Cat was bad luck. In fact Theodore Taylor almost dedicated a full chapter just about Stew Cat being bad luck. A piece of evidence is when the page reads, “...Timothy, Stew Cat is not a jumbi. You let him alone. The old man was silent, and I was suddenly worried for Stew Cat’s safety” (Taylor 86). Yet again, in the movie nothing like this ever happens. Timothy never has a problem with Stew Cat and they get along great. In the book, the fact that Timothy had a problem with Stew created a internal conspiracy for Timothy. This was talked about many times in the book however, just ignored in the