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Phillip's Personality Change In The Cay

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Can someone's personality change? Phillips personality obviously changed throughout the text. In The Cay, Phillips character is revealed as he is thrown into humbling conflict and obstacles. After a plethora of events and experiences Phillip is changed from one person to a completely new one.

In the development of Phillip’s personal identity, it changed dramatically, Phillip first started out as innocent. “I had played there many times with Henrik and the other boys when we were a few years younger, imagining we were defending Willemstad against pirates or even the British…or sometimes we’d pretend we were the Dutch going out on raids against Spanish galleon” (Taylor 11). Phillip, when he was younger, would pretend to fight armies, not having …show more content…

“Squirming and jumpin in my hand, it was small and fat. I grinned over toward Timothy. When I had fished before, it was fun. Now I felt I had done something very special. I was learning to do things all over again, by touch and feel” (Taylor 98). When Phillip caught a fish by himself, with his disability, he had truly changed and evolved as a person from someone that was scared or intimidated to someone who would now do something of great risk. This is significant because it shows his growth from being helpless to helpful and independent even with the disability.

In The Cay, Phillips character is revealed as he is thrown into umbling conflict and obstacles. Phillips experiences numerous things over the course of the text, Philip's personality is proof that people personality can indeed change. thy dies he has to live in his own and he manages to do so by remembering what to do to go fishing and what to do is if a plane passed by. Even though he was alone he managed to survive and not get scared.

That was my thoughts about how phillip expresses his character traits throughout the Cay, phillip changes a lot over the time of the novel and he also matured a

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