Growing up is something that comes and it’s unavoidable. No matter how much one tries to hold on to it it’s something that’s inevitable in one way or another we all grow up and mature. We start to see the world differently or realize things aren’t what we think they are. This is the case with Alberto Alvaro Rios’s “The Secret Lion.” The whole story revolves around the twelve year old narrator whose name is unknown. But what we do know is that the character is going through changes that he doesn’t quite understand and it takes some time to assimilate.
For instance the change from elementary to junior high school He describes the drastic change in everything that he used to know from elementary for example the teacher “what happened was there
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The other young boy called Sergio is too, but we only catch glimpses of his character. Sergio seems to have a similar nature to the narrator, but he’s isn’t really described in the story so in a sense he’s a flat character but not exactly only somewhat. He is involved in the action of the story because the narrator and he are going through the same stage in life, but we don’t see much of him as a person. Both characters are dynamic characters because they change by the end of the story after wandering off into the hills and finding a golf course and calling it their “heaven.” They get kicked out by two men and then narrator goes on to say “something got taken away from us that moment. Heaven. We grew up a little bit and we couldn’t go backward.” They both learned that the little piece of what they called “heaven” was actually a golf course used by adults to play a game. “They had told us about heaven. And it went away. We got golf …show more content…
We could sense their wonder and joy when, embarking in their “journey” up some “mountains” and finding the lush green golf course. You could almost hear their laughter when they play on the course and their crushing disappointment when they found out their piece of “heaven” is actually a place where rich grown men play a game. “We grew up a little bit, and we couldn’t go backward. We learned “clearly states that the narrator feels disappointed and is finally beginning to understand that not everything is what it seems to be and that growing is something that
“Growing up” is a very broad term that is used without a true, consistent definition. In essence, it describes and encompasses themes of coming of age and the loss of innocence as a person moves from child to adult. In many respects, people view this change as a specific, pivotal moment in a person’s life, such as an eighteenth birthday, or the day a person leaves their parents’ house. This idea of having a crucial moment in life, which provides the open door into adulthood, is portrayed in many novels. It is easy to find a death that occurs, or a specific event that causes a character to “grow up” prematurely, but many times, contrary to most beliefs, that exact event is not the turn of the key leading through the doors to maturity. It is rather just a small push which starts a domino effect. This is the same scenario in the novel All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. This novel proves that loss of innocence is a learning process rather than the result of a
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...ident or desired social interaction, those aspects of his personality grew overtime. Through his life experiences and how he interpreted them he developed a way to deal with and understand the world. It seems apparent to me now that our personalities are more than our initial reactions to life, they are shaped by our experiences. Bob’s experiences shows deep and meaningful changes through out his life that I had not fully recognized before this analysis the change college had on him as well as the meeting of his wife, seemed so miniscule in my eyes, something common that most people went through. But to him it was life changing earth shattering things. I have achieved a better understanding of who bob is through this assignment I now fully understand the way people view their own lives is complicated, and highlights aspects of their lives that one would not expect.
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In “The Secret Lion,” Alberto Alvaro Rios establishes the theme as loss of innocence in a young boy. The narrator brings to life a boy who must leave behind his youthful perceptions about girls, the arroyo, and his green haven. All preconceptions are shattered, and each glimpse of bliss is taken away. Through this the boy gains perspective, and begins to see the world with a new awareness. Rios ingrains the loss of innocence theme through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy who exhibits maturity, autonomy, and disillusionment.
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