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

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The short story “Pride of Seven” by Robert W. Krepps portrays the theme that a male becomes a man by demonstrating bravery. This short story starts with the narrator moving into the Masai Tribe in Africa, and he meets En-Gerr who is scorned by warriors and girls. The narrator becomes friends with En-Gerr, and soon falls into this deep passion for the lions that lived nearby. En-Gerr decides to follow through to become a man and kill a lion, and heads out in search of a lion in his traditional warrior weapons and clothes. When En-Gerr and El Asfar, the head lion of the pride, come face to face En-Gerr tries to make peace with the lion. In the end, En Gerr succeeded in making peace with the lions and he still receives his manhood. The theme that

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