In the novel Boy of the Painted Cave set between 18 and 20 thousand years ago during the Old Stone Age., Justin Denzel (the author) tells the story of a young teenage boy named Tao who is more drawn more to animals instead of hunting them. He’s a rule breaker,rule-breaker; a caring, brave and smart kid.
Tao is a fourteen-year-old considersand is considered an outcast and a rule-breaker in his clan that lives in a valley full of Mountains Riversmountains, rivers and Cavescaves and the forbidden place, the slough. He was born with an injured foot. Tao loves to draw. heHe dreams of being a cave painter, also known as a shaman. In the novel, Justin Denzelthe author writes that back in the Old Stone Age, wherewhen the novel takes place, that creating images was taboo ( forbidding). For(forbidden) for anyone who wasn’t chosen to be a shaman.