The Secret Lion by Alberto Alvaro Rios and Doe Season by David Kaplan: Comparative Analysis

Thesis Statement

When comparing The Secret Lion by Alberto Alvaro Rios with Doe Season by David Kaplan, we find lots of similarities and differences between the two.

The Secret Lion by Alberto Alvaro Rios and Doe Season by David Kaplan: Comparative Analysis- theme, story, plot & characters

The paper proves that there are lots of similarities and differences between The Secret Lion by Alberto Alvaro Rios and Doe Season by David Kaplan.

The Secret Lion is a secret, intriguing mystery - a labyrinth of a story that twists and turns us well and surely, deep in an intricate maze set in Tudor Times. Pulled along by this well-plotted tale with a wonderful list of characters, the reader journeys with the main character, Brendan Prescott, to discover the truth whilst keeping hold of the author's “What if?” thread. Historical possibilities are rendered possible through a carefully choreographed story.

In Alberto Alvaro Rios's story The Secret Lion, the theme captures how change is imminent and how a child's innocence cannot be spared. Just as our world constantly revolves around our sun, we must also revolve around an essential part of our life course: change (Laurie, pp. 56-78). From the caveman to the modern man change has always been present, and although we constantly change, not everyone responds the same way. The transformation from elementary to middle school, the arroyo, the grinding ball, the golf course and the lion represent symbolic objects vital to the understanding of story's theme.

What do you consider the main philosophical position of the author in this short story?

First of all I will say as Rios (pp. 45-59) also mentions the first symbolic objective in The Secret Lion is the transformation from elementary to middle school. Here we read about the authors first encounter with change and his inability to comprehend what was taking place around him; for example, his realization that his friend Sergio and him can not talk to girls the same way they could in Elementary school. The narrator has reached the point where he now finds the girls sexually attractive and since talking to them makes him nervous, as a result (Laurie, pp. 56-78), he avoids communication: And we saw girls now, but they were not the same girls we use to know because we could not talk to them anymore, not the same way we used to. This is the basic philosophy of the author as I think.

He now can not ask his teachers questions such as the definition of a word either because he feels that he would get criticized for asking. Now confused, he could not help but wonder why was it that trying to find out what certain words meant was considered wrong: School was not school, everything was backward (Rios, pp. 45-59). Their child's innocence had been strapped away, and now they were not children, but instead developing men who not only could get into trouble for saying the wrong thing, but ...