Boy of the Painted Cave Blog

Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel, has 158 pages filled with drama, adventures, and, action. The main characters in this story are Tao, Ram, and Greybeard with clan leader, Volt, as an antagonist. Tao is an unloved, bad-footed, 14 year old early man who wants to be a cave painter. In the story, cave painting is forbidden but Tao does it anyway. When he leaves the clan to go off on his own, he meets Greybeard, a cave painter and chosen one. Greybeard helps Tao become a real cave painter.

In Boy of the Painted Cave, the Secret Cavern has a big affect on the story. The clan believes that only the chosen one can paint in the Secret Cavern. In the story Tao commits a crime by painting in it, and he has to face Saxon, the sacred bull because of his fault.