The Lion and the Hunter

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.