The theme that both the article and the poem share is that lions should be free and about people’s feeling for lions. In the beginning of the story The Wild Life of Christian the Lion, the author, Tod Olson states at the bottom of the page “Can a lion born in a cage ever learn to be free?” and at the end of the story it answers that question, yes. It said at the end of the story that Christian was able to survive in the wild with his own pride, free. Then in the poem it says “And so they belong at watering holes, shaking manes in hot sun” meaning that they both want lions to be free in the wild. In the article it says that “We knew we couldn’t betray him by putting him in the zoo,” meaning that the idea of letting him go grasped them. Also
