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Robert W. Krepps's Short Story 'Pride Of Seven'

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Robert W. Krepps’s short story, “Pride of Seven” illuminates the theme,with fear comes courage. The story begins by introducing the Masai tribe of Kenya, and the dutchman that has been living with the tribe for quite sometime. The dutchman has become friends with one of the natives whom goes by the name En-gerr, who has not yet sought after his lion. In the Masai tribe in order for a boy to become a man he must kill a lion, with no gun only a spear. The dutchman happens to have found a pride of seven lions in which he has come to enjoy watching. One day the dutchman tells En-gerr of the pride and takes him to see the magnificent beasts. once he has been shown the leader of the pride En-geer decides that El Asfar (the leader of the pride)
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