Becoming A Man In The Short Story 'Pride Of Seven'

The short story “Pride of Seven” portrays the theme a person becomes a man by demonstrating bravery and strength. In Africa the Masai tribe has a tradition that you have to kill a lion to become a man and En-geer/ the sheep decides to kill El-asfar (a lion). The narrator is a journalist writing about the masai tribe.En-gerr is scared to kill the lion though. Within the story the narrator states how the masai tribe explains the tradition of becoming a warrior and a man, “He had recently gone through the ceremonies that take a masai ranks of a boy and make them a warrior, il-muran”(1). This quote explains that killing a lion makes you a true warrior and better yet a true man. It also fits the theme that to become a man takes bravery and strength