STUDENTS WRITE
The Keeping of “The Secret Lion”
ANDREW DECKER
Andrew Decker was a student at Niagara County Community College when he wrote the following literary analysis of Ríos’s “The Secret Lion” in response to an assignment in his first-year writing class. As you read the essay, notice the one aspect of the literary work that Decker focuses on, his thesis, and the evidence he uses to support it.