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    A Study Guide for Jean M. Auel's "The Clan of the Cave Bear"
    A Study Guide for Jean M. Auel's "The Clan of the Cave Bear"
    A Study Guide for Jean M. Auel's "The Clan of the Cave Bear"
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    A Study Guide for Jean M. Auel's "The Clan of the Cave Bear"

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    A Study Guide for Jean M. Auel's "The Clan of the Cave Bear," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535835824
    A Study Guide for Jean M. Auel's "The Clan of the Cave Bear"

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      A Study Guide for Jean M. Auel's "The Clan of the Cave Bear" - Gale

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      The Clan of the Cave Bear

      Jean Auel

      1980

      Introduction

      The Clan of the Cave Bear was initially met with reluctance by publishers when Jean Auel approached them with her plan for a series of novels set in prehistoric times. Although meticulously researched, the sheer length of the original manuscript made many publishers unwilling to take the risk on the untried author. Indeed The Clan of the Cave Bear is one of those novels that is either loved or hated.

      The story concerns a young girl named Ayla who is orphaned by a natural disaster and then adopted by a group known as the Clan. Ayla is very different from the Clan: physically, she is blond and blue-eyed and the people in the Clan are stocky and dark; she is expressive, sensitive, and smart and they are dour, plodding, and cold. Historians and anthropologists immediately reacted to Auel's book, maintaining that her assumptions about Neanderthal life were not realistic. In fact, Auel seems to be basing her view of the Neanderthal on the racially motivated bad science of late nineteenth-century French anthropology. It is precisely this bad science and overt racism that has prompted many anthropologists to denounce the novel.

      However, the reading public truly seems to enjoy the novel that sold over one hundred thousand copies in the first three months after its publication. The Clan of the Cave Bear is an original work of fiction that explores the world of human beings in prehistoric times. Her novel has even inspired fans to write sequels about the Clan available on the World Wide Web (www.onebridgehome.com/altauel)

      Author Biography

      Jean Auel was born in Chicago on February 18, 1936. She moved to Oregon and attended Portland State University, receiving her M.A. from the University of Portland in 1976. It was not until after she had raised five children that she began to write poetry and fiction. In fact, The Clan of the Cave Bear started as a short story exploring Auel's interest in Paleolithic humans. As Auel asserts, "the story lead to research, the research fired my imagination, and

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