Answer:look down
Explanation:The story from Theodore Taylor, The Cay is a novel against prejudice, there's a strong message against racism. This is reinforced not only with the story itself but with the dedication he writes for M.L King. Is also about relationships and the way they are built up sweeping prejudice away.
Phillips is an 11 year old boy that carries his mother's preconception on black people and learns to deconstruct his own barriers by dint of need and Timothy peaceful character and devotion.
Phillips first thoughts are like this: "You ugly black man! I won't do it! You're stupid, you can't even spell.". Tough and painful. But as time goes by he becomes permeable to Timothy kindness and tenderness, but that a hard work: “Wanting to hear it from Timothy, I asked him why there were different colors of skin, white and black, brown and red, and he laughed back, "Why b'feesh different color, or flower b'different color? I true don't' know, Phil-eep, but I true tink beneath d'skin is all d'same.". And after all he reconstruct his own beliefs: “I had now been with him every moment of the day and night for two months, but I had not seen him. I remember that ugly welted face. But now, in my memory, it did not seem ugly at all. It seemed only kind and strong. I asked, "Timothy, are you still black?. His laughter filled the hut.” And as he was being rescued and returned to his home not only his own beliefs but also his skin and part of his heart had been revolutionized: “The pilot had flown away, perhaps thinking I was just another native fisherman waving at an aircraft. I knew that the color of my skin was very dark now.”
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