Simba's Metamorphosis In The Lion King

The Lion King was set in the African savannah, where the food chains were vast. The king of the “pride lands” was Mufassa. He was the head lion of the pride of mostly female lionesses. Mufassa’s brother, Scar was greedy and selfish. The pack lived on pride rock, a habitat that provided shelter and way for the exponential growth of the population of lions. At the beginning of the movie, Sarabi bore a child for Mufasa and named him Simba. Simba was next in line in the hierarchy of ancestor lions. He was destined to become the next king after Mufasa. This made Mufasa’s malevolent brother Scar unhappy. At the beginning of the movie, the mysterious monkey Rafiki was seen raising Simba (the future king) to all the animals of the grasslands and beyond as they bowed down before him. After several days, Simba began to grow at a substantial rate and became …show more content…
The lions had numerous animals connecting to them in the pervasive food web of the African savannah. Mufasa believed that his son was going to be a great ki0ng. Subsequently, Simba and Nala went to explore the shadowed areas and were attacked by Hyenas sent by Scar. Fortunately Zazu alerted Mufasa of the danger and Mufasa scared the Hyenas away. The hyenas were filled with fear when they saw Mufasa because he was a carnivore who was on the top of the ecological pyramid and would not hesitate eating them. One day Scar planned a nefarious but successful plan of killing his brother Mufasa by sending him into the midst of stampeding wildebeest in the attempt of saving Simba. Unfortunately Mufasa was killed in the Stampede and Simba was banished by Scar into the vast desert to die. He fell unconscious in the middle of the desert and was about to be eaten by scavenger vultures. Fortunately he was rescued by a meerkat named Timon and a warthog named