Ashlynn Turner ENG 9H Block 2 9/30/22 U1 Summative Paragraph The short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell presents the concept that conformity forced onto groups results in them forfeiting their capability to function as a group. In this story, Russell follows the story of Claudette, a girl taken away from everything she knows to study a seemingly better culture. In this story, Claudette looked back on her past at St. Lucy’s school for girls raised by wolves.
Isaac Fox: St. Lucy’s Essay Karen Russell’s short story St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves shows the trials and tribulations of wolf girls at a school in an attempt to assimilate to human culture. I believe that Claudette has not successfully adapted to her new environment. This is because of the overwhelming amount of mistakes compared to her successes.
In Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.”, a story is told about a group of girls raised by werewolves, but are taken out of their natural environment to be socialized into "naturalized citizens of human society. " While this story is fictional and interesting most readers will not comprehend that the whole story is one big metaphor. It’s a metaphor about growing up and having experiences. The story reveals that the more one becomes socialized the more they lose sight of their human connection.
Ladybug Girl In the picture book, The Ladybug Girl written by Jacki Davis and illustrated by David Soman provides a fun and playful story with the words and bright pictures. The Ladybug Girl is about a little girl named Lulu and everybody keeps telling her that she is too little to do anything. Lulu dresses up as Ladybug Girl and saves ants, goes through shark infested puddles and even skips along a dark twisty tree trunk.
In the passage from Kiss of the Fur Queen, Tomson Highway uses diction and syntax to dramatize Okimasis’ attempt to combat the harsh, wintry conditions and his will to accomplish his pressing desire to win by tones of hopelessness and motivation. Employing diction, Highway contrasts Okimasis’ frustration of trailing behind to his eventual determination to prevail victorious. “Like a man about to sob”, Okimasis loses heart and views his huskies as “insubstantial wisps of air”, completely defeated. Utilizing similes to showcase Okimasis’ desperation, the author highlights his lost vigour to win. By comparing the huskies to near nothingness, the author reduces the ferocity and the savagery of the animals and degrades them to _, floating in the air, completely aimless and devoid of life.
Pitzer College Christine de Pizan’s Definition of a Woman Katherine Cohen Queer and Feminist Histories of Early Modern Europe Dr. Carina Johnson 17 February 2023 Christine de Pizan was a writer and poet who lived in the medieval era. Because her father was King Charles the fifth’s astrologer and secretary, she was one of the few women in early modern Europe who had access to an education (Mark, 2019). This gave her the rare opportunity to learn how to write and read when growing up, while most women at the time were learning how to be homemakers. One of her most famous books is The Book of the City of Ladies, which is a feminist piece that challenges stereotypes and misogynistic views towards women that were prevalent at this
This photo still of Mrs. Potts and Chip from the 1991 film “Beauty and the Beast” represents the correlation between early childhood and animism. During early childhood, it is common for children to think objects have the ability to become alive and take on human characteristics. In the film, “Beauty and the Beast” many natural objects are brought to life and given the opportunity to take on human qualities. For example, Mrs. Potts (Angela Lansbury) and Chip (Bradley Pierce) were actually humans but were turned into household objects due to a curse but were able to keep their personalities. A great example of how it’s easy for a child to think of objects as alive is the mother (Mrs. Potts) and son (Chip) duo in the movie.
People who endure dislocation feel out of place and have many mixed emotions. Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” tells the story of a group of girls who suffer from lycanthropy including Jeanette, Claudette, and Mirabella. The “pack” of girls go through many stages to rehabilitate to their human identity. The girls experience culture shock and have to work as they progress through the stage.
Imagine being told as a female in today’s world you must look or act a ¬¬certain way in order to be accepted. Being what you want to be is not allowed and changes have to be made in order to be included. They say “pain is beauty, and beauty is pain” as they way a woman looks today are completely different from ten or even fifty years ago. In this paper, the reader will understand the mind of a woman in today’s society and the difficulties to be not only accepted but being her own person as well. Not only has the appearance of a woman changed but also role titles and job descriptions as well.
Ralph discusses a number of topics in the meeting held with everyone. To start, Ralph talks about how and why he thinks things are breaking up within the group. The biggest cause of this break up in the group, I believe, is all of the children’s immaturity. The children are all very young and immature, which causes them to not focus on what is necessary for survival, and focus more on having fun. Although Ralph makes the kids work, it is all for the better of their survival, but the children want to go to Jack’s group because it is more amusing.
“Beauty and the Beast” written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, is often given a very clichéd moral. Many people would argue that the main lesson of the tale is to not judge a book by it’s cover. While that is not technically incorrect, it is not the only moral present in the story. In fact, the story has many morals that are not nearly as unoriginal. “Beauty and the Beast” is more than a story about inner beauty, because not allowing your fears to get in the way of happiness, and sacrifice.
Both Blanche's family and Belle Reve represent her dream to indulge in a sophisticated, high class, and luxurious life. When all of Blanche’s family dies and Stella leaves, Blanche loses the first piece of her “beautiful dream.” She no longer has the money to support herself, since her educational career provides insufficient funds. After the tragic loss of her husband, Blanche loses Belle Reve and loses her job, symbolizing that her “beautiful dream” has been fully crushed and the only remnants of her dream are the lies she feeds herself. This fall of social class leads Blanche to carry a tone of classism.
In the story, Beauty and the Beast, by Bill Condon, The Beast was not always a beast, he was cursed. He was cursed for being rude and mean to an enchantress disguised as homeless old woman on a cold winter night, he is turned into a beast and is given a magic rose by the enchantress. There is a way to reverse the curse however, someone must fall in love with the beast but if no one falls in love with him by the time the petals all fall, and then he will remain a beast forever. The rose I painted represents Belle’s journey and the challenges she went through to help the Beast. It also signifies the love presented by both belle and the beast; and the Beast’s fate and life.
Beauty and the Beast is a popular children’s fairy tale. Many children love it. What most children and even adults neglect to look at in the story is breaking it down to visualize the basic literary elements. There are many in this story. The literary elements Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont clearly shows in this story is character, theme, and plot.
In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, Claudette, Mirabella, and Jeanette is taken to a foreign place to adapt to human nature. They are taken through the process of 5 stages of becoming human. Claudette, the speaker of the story, is stuck between two faces, the human and the wolf face. While Claudette is in between these two worlds, she has fully conformed from wolf to human. She has completed the transformation from wolf to human because her own mother doesn 't recognize her, trying to make herself seem more like human, and not even caring about her own fellow wolf mates anymore.
