The Secret Lion Analysis

It is believed that imagination and a person's attitude can change throughout life. The story of The Secret Lion is about a boy reminiscing back on his life. His age is unclear but, he is an older boy throughout the whole story. In The Secret Lion, Alberto Alvaro Rios uses similes to emphasize imagination and attitude throughout life. In the story the readers can see if the main character's imagination changes when he reminisces back to when he was twelve and then again to when he was five years old. His similes involving imagination either ues animals, magic, or the unknown. The characters attitude on life can also change throughout life. When the boy compares some things in his life to animals he always talks about it being big. The boy

The character goes through life changes the same way anyone would. He likes to compare those moments using similes. When the boy is in middle school he talks about how junior high kids are rude and no one would stop them from being rude and obnoxious. “Miss Crevelone, and how we wanted to dissect some of them, making signs of the cross, like priests, and we would yell this stuff over and over because it felt good” (170). The attitude of the kids are self-indulgent. They want to yell because they can. No one stops them so they feel rebellious and good. Their attitudes are becoming more selfish instead of playful and carefree. When kids start acting rebellious they start acting snobbish or in other words, rich. “[W]e started acting ‘rich.’ We knew all about how to do that, like blowing on our nails, then rubbing them on our chests for the shine” (173). They know exactly how to act rich even though they aren’t. This is also a good example of how imagination can change your attitude. Acting rich can make you feel rich but, are you? Attitude can also do with wonder. In the quote about “The Wizard of Oz” the boy only talks about when they are happy. “It was like ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ like when they got to Oz and everything was so green, so emerald, they had to wear those glasses, and we ran just like them, laughing, laughing that way we did that moment, and we went running down to this clearing in it

Rios uses similes to express imagination through magic, the unknown, and animals. Rios also uses similes to express attitude. If Rios didn’t use similes to compare imagination and attitude, the boys mood and tone would not be as expressive. As an adult, people think about their childhood as being carefree and then as you get older you get less carefree and more selfish. Rios uses similes to emphasize how changes in imagination and attitude come throughout life. Using similes to tell a story makes it easier to compare what a character is thinking or feeling to something the readers will understand. The boy has the right imagination and attitude to do