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"The Secret Lion"
"The Secret Lion," written by Alberto Rios, is a strange short story consisting of symbols. Each symbol highlights the change of the lives of the twelve-year-old boy who tells the story, and his friend Sergio. As the story progresses, the boys are growing up and becoming adults. My argument is that the boys learn that change is to be expected, and is always accompanied by loss, and everything in this story is relates to symbolism.
The main symbol of the story is the arroyo, or river. In real life, it is a place to play, but symbolically it is a place to rebel, because they are not supposed to go there and swim in the forbidden water or yell forbidden words. "It was our river, though, our personal Mississippi, our friend from long back, and it was full of stories" (202). As they grow older, the arroyo does not change thought the years, but the boys' view of it does. As time goes by, the arroyo displeases the boys, and they decide to stop visiting that specific......

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