The use of metaphors in Brothers are the Same by Beryl Markham shows that Temas is in a man’s life-or-death trial because of Temas’ fear of failure to himself. In the text of “Bats” Temas’ fear “was small and inescapable”(3) that the arena “walls were tall young men that shone like worn gold in the sun, and in this shrunken world there were Temas and the lion”(3). Temas’ fear shows the struggle of him wanting the be fit into the community, and that his fear overcomes him when he gets put into arena with the lion during his life-or-death trial. Temas was “carrying the unstained spear a little awkwardly”(2) that his “joy of having it was quickly dead”(2), symbolises that Temas’ courage of being accepted into his community had quickly drained