Pride Of Seven By Robert W. Keef's & Quote

The short story “Pride of Seven” by Robert W. Krepps demonstrates many similarities and differences between En-gerr, a man who must kill a lion, and El Asfar, a lion chief. To begin with, one of the similarities between the two includes their ability to be able to back away from a battle they know they don’t have to fight. En-gerr showed his endowment gift of truism when he called truce with the lion he endured to kill, El Asfar. It was down by the foothills where seven fearless lions roamed the land, and En-gerr stood proudly in front of the beast when he said, “It is peace, chieftain….You are my first lion, and it is peace between us. ‘He tossed the grass down before El Asfar, and turned and came back toward us’” (9). This was one of

The narrator said, “Now, I thought, surely he’ll attack….he’ll charge….I clung to my doubts until the very moment when En-gerr rejoined us” (9). El Asfar could have easily killed En-gerr, but he decided to let him go. These quotes show that En-gerr and El Asfar are similar because both of them were expected to fight and win, but they saw the bigger picture and realized that the sluggish battle wasn’t worth their time. It is one thing to fight and win, but it is another story to have the courage to walk away. Another similarity that the mighty lion, El Asfar, and the courageous man, En-gerr, share is at one point they had to put someone back in their place. For one of the cases, one had to prove they were the king, and in the other case, one had to prove that he knew how to make wise decisions by

...A man remembers his first lion all his life” (5). This was a moment where En-gerr had to put someone back in their place because the narrator didn’t believe he had it in him to kill the lion chief, but his words proved he could. El Asfar also had to put someone in their place, a lion named Black Mane; thus, he had to fight Black Mane to display the fact that he was the top lion. The narrator said, “He stood up slowly. Giving a brief but earsplitting bellow, he launched his great body full at Black Mane….And it was a fight….Black Mane had succeeding in standing and was starting off after the distant lionesses, his chin touching the grass as he went. He looked like a beast who had learned a valuable lesson—the hard way” (7-8). Both En-gerr and El Asfar magnified the fact that they do what to do for good reasoning. They knew what they needed to be done, and they had to prove it to the one person or animal that doubted their choice or their presence in a certain position of power. Most importantly, they did whatever they had to do to justify the fact that they do belong or they are indeed capable of doing the