Later that day when Laurence shares his feelings about marrying Esther, Father Paul (Laurence’s Uncle) tells him that he is very …show more content…
Therefore, she says, “they account for it by the fact that I am a red-skin, but they seem to forget that I am a woman.”
Where “the lion’s hair” is the story about a girl and a boy who falls in love with each other and becomes husband and wife. For the short while they were perfectly happy but after some while they started finding fault with each other over little things. There came a time when not even a single day would pass of them without fighting with each other over very little things and some days they even yelled at each other bitter curses and went to sleep without speaking and that would only have made things worse.
After some time when the girl thought that she cannot take it longer, she went to the old judge to ask for her divorce. The old judge asks her, “You’ve been barely married for a year. Don’t you love your husband?” The girl replies that they love each other but the things are not working out anymore and explained everything to the old judge. The old judge understands her problem and told her that he can help her with a magical medicine if she wants to get along back with her husband and put aside the thought of getting divorced. The girl cries and says, “give it to me.” But the old judge said her that for the magical medicine you need to get me a single hair of the fierce lion that lives down the …show more content…
In “As It Was in The Beginning” Esther fights for her womanhood and for her dignity with her love and with the one she idolised. Where in “the lion’s hair” the girl fights with all the fears to save her marriage. In “As It Was in The Beginning” Esther kills her love so that he doesn’t marry any other girl and she wanted to give misery to father Paul to point on her identity and on her dignity. Where in “The Lion’s Hair” the girl kills her fear to get lions hair to save her marriage. “As It Was in The Beginning” gives the lesson about fighting for own and our own womanhood no matter what colour or family you belong to. Where “The Lion’s Hair” gives the lesson about bringing the patience and resolve and courage in any relation to make it work and to not give up easily and also to fight our fears for our