The Tiger's Heart

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Many people have different values, and it can be money, power, status, or anything else. In this case, Jim Kjelgaard’s short story The Tiger’s Heart takes place in a jungle with a small village somewhere on Latin America. People in the village feared the jungle because it was a threat, and there is a tiger that is lurking in the jungle. Therefore, a person named Pepe was asked to eliminate the tiger. Pepe, a fearless man is motivated to search the beast, and kill it in order to protect his village for power, wealth, and admiration. Pepe wants power to maintain it. Pepe is the only person that owned a rifle therefore, he is the most powerful in the village. The whole village is tensed during the darkness, except for Pepe because he has a rifle. He did not “need to people the night with fantastic creatures because he owned a rifle” (Kjelgaard, 55). With this possession, Pepe can achieve anything that he values. A person from the village named Juan Aria, asked Pepe to kill a tiger because …show more content…
He clearly knows that he is the most powerful because of his rifle. This can mean that he would want to be known because he is the only one who can kill the tiger, and everyone else only has a machete. He even “fondle his rifle and make sure that it was close beside him,” and as long as he possesses it, he is “king” (Kjelgaard, 54). Over to the village, when Pepe was walking around, he was “aware of the villagers watching him and he knew that their glances would be very respectful” (Kjelgaard, 57). Also the “man with a rifle, the man able to protect them, must necessarily be a hero” (Kjelgaard, 57). Since none of the people would dare to take a tiger’s trail, Pepe challenged himself and, because he did, he must be” revered” (Kjelgaard, 57). Everyone in the village had machete, but the man who owned a rifle must remain supreme” (Kjelgaard, 57). Therefore, Pepe is greatly recognized by the whole village because of his
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