The Loss of Innocence in The Secret Lion by Alberto Alvaro Rios
This paper will discuss the 'coming of age' journey of two boys in The Secret Lion by Alberto Alvaro Rios. In understanding how these two boys are now in junior high school, they feel a devastating sense of fear and dislocation as they begin to realize their fantasy world as children is shattered by the segregation of this environment. Rios correctly portrays a loss of innocence in these two Latino boys.