Robert W. Krepps's Pride Of Seven

The short story “Pride of Seven” by Robert W. Krepps demonstrates that occasionally people need to surprise society and do the unexpected. In the beginning, a man, who is the narrator of the story (the duchess), explains about how he ended up in Africa, and he also shares information about the tribe (the Masai) he has been living with; he may live in the village with the people, but he spends most of his fair shared time on the top of a hill watching the majestic seven lions that live below (the Pride of Seven). Moving on, the Masai have a tradition that in order to become a man, you must kill a lion, and one of the duchess’s friends, En-gerr, has not done so yet; therefore, when he mentioned the Pride of Seven to En-gerr, he wanted to
Ever since he discovered the seven majestic creatures living just below the hill he couldn’t just step away like they didn’t exist. He said, “I was living upcountry with the Masai; or perhaps I should say I was spending half my time with them and half with the lions” (1). All the Masai people were shocked to find the duchess spending so much time with the lions instead of spending time with them, the reason he was in Africa. He might have went to Africa to learn about the Masai for his book, but he even surprised himself by learning more about the Pride of Seven then about the actual people. The final phenomenal example that shows that it is a good thing to do the opposite of what most people are expecting is when En-gerr picked El Asfar as the lion for his first kill. The duchess and En-gerr were sitting on top of the hill above where the Pride of Seven were, and it was there where En-gerr selected El Asfar. En-gerr said, “My friend, I have found the lion which I must kill. He is the great yellow chieftain” (4). En-gerr did the unthinkable by selecting a stout chief lion for his first