A Chapter by Chapter Summary of "Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean Auel Essay

Clan of the Cave Bear Chapter Summary's Chapter 1 According to the map in the beginning of the book, this story takes place roughly 25- 30,000 yrs before the present time. The place that it takes place is in pre-historic Europe, during the ice age. The chapter begins with a small girl having fun in some water, after leaving her house. All of sudden, the ground begins shaking, which causes the river to shake as well. She cries out for her mother, but to no avail. The girl stands in awe as everything she ever knew was quickly swallowed by the earth. She was now alone, her mother dead, and her home destroyed. She slowly walked through the forest, stopping whenever tiny aftershocks would rumble through the dirt. She keeps running until nightfall. She attempts to hide the fear in the back of her head, but its of no use. The girl sits there, clinging herself, and wide-eyed looking at the darkness around her. As she awoke to her own sounds of screaming, she realizes how much she hungered and thirsted. She looks around to realize the many greens and other wild flowers around her. Unfortunately, she was not skilled in knowing how to tell between poison flowers, or healthy herbs. Water being the only thing able to quench both thirst and hunger, she presses on. Continuing, she finds a waterfall, and although the rumbling was close to deafening, she carries on, following the long stream to what she believed would be an escape of some sort. Seemingly, the idea of feeding her hunger with the constant support of water was not enough. The young girl began hallucinating of her mother. She runs after the mirage, but only to realize it is not really there. After her hallucination, she finds herself standing very close to a 6 foot Auroch, that momentarily is beaten to the ground by a huge lioness. The large hunting animal soon...