How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Something slapped up against my leg, and I thought it was Timothy. I knew how to swim, but didn't know which way to go. So I was treading water. Then I heard Timothy's frightened roar, "Sharks," and he was thrashing about near me. (6.4)
Phillip falls into the water and is nearly attacked by sharks. Here is the natural world at its most dangerous.
Quote #5
"D'place I am thinking of is call Debil's Mout'. 'Tis a U-shaped ting, wit dese sharp coral banks on either side runnin' maybe forth, fifty mile…" (7.50)
The cay Timothy and Phillip are stranded on is remote and treacherous. Why is it called Devil's Mouth? Does the cay deserve this name?
Quote #6
I liked the rain because it was something I could hear and feel; not something I must see. It peppered in bursts against the frond roof, and I could hear the drips as it leaked through. The squall wind was in the tops of the palms and I could imagine how they looked in the night sky, thrashing against each other high over our little cay.
I wanted it to rain all night. (10.5-6)
Though Phillip has experienced rainfall many times, he enjoys it more now because it's something he can "hear and feel," not something he has to see to appreciate.