Becoming One of Them.

I was startled to read that in Mario Llosa's Book The Storyteller the tribe had protected him and excepted him as on of there own. He realises this on page 185. That the tribe had protected him, "They were not protecting the institution or the idea of the storyteller in the abstract. They were protecting him". Why would they protect him a man they didnt really know a man that was not born as one of them? That perhaps because he was trying to keep there traditions and they respected him for it. It suprises me that a Outside tribe would take in this man and make him one of there own. For telling there storys he was seen as one of them in there eyes.