Themes Of The Secret Lion

Growing up is unavoidable. No matter how much one tries to hold on to it its inevitable in one way or another we all grow up and mature. The elements used to support this idea are many different ones. The theme for "The Secret Lion” is loss of innocence or childhood; basically the main idea is growing up. 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.

The narrator describes the drastic change from elementary to junior high for example the narrator talks about his new situation with his teachers “…what happened was there were teachers now, not just one teacher, teach-erz...” his confusion by the drastic change of having only one teacher to teach his class and help him out then to having multiple teachers. You also get that sense of abandonment and being overwhelmed. He feels abandoned because now that he has multiple teachers, he doesn’t get the kind of attention and care that he was used to in middle school. With all these different teachers with different personalities and classroom rules he

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