The Lion and the
Hunter
(African proverb, and Aesop)
Sometimes
people take credit for the work they have done without letting the other person
share what they have done to deserve credit. This statement is true in the African
proverb, “Until the lion has his or her own storyteller, the hunter will always
have the best part of the story.” What this quote means is that the hunter will
only brag about the accomplishments he did without letting the lion share his
side of the story. This shows how people are more concerned with how well they
do in life and how they will put themselves up in a position where they feel
good and the other person feels like they are not important. In the tale, The
Lion and The Statue by Aesop, one man and a lion were having a conversation
about the strength between a man and a lion in general. The man tried
convincing the lion that lions should be scared of humans because of their strength
in their ability to kill a lion. The man led the lion over to a statue of Hercules
tearing the mouth of a lion. The lion said that the statue was made by man and
it proves nothing. People can exaggerate themselves information about
themselves because people can easily represent things as they wish them to be
even though they might not be true.
