According to the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”by Karen Russell, the girls parents send them to St. Lucy’s in order for them to become naturalized humans of society. Throughout the stages, they master human advancement while encountering culture shock of human society. Claudette integrates into human culture successfully at the end of the story. In my opinion, I believe that she has become a naturalized citizen. Claudette has successfully consolidated into human society.
Next, they must adapt because they will never succeed at St Lucy’s if they don’t. Lastly they must enjoy this new culture because it’s how some of them will spend the rest of their lives. In the first stages, the girls begin to explore their new culture at St Lucy’s. When they first arrive “they began to fear through the austere rooms at St. Lucy’s”.
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.
The girls at St. Lucy’s are very uncivilized and “tear through austere rooms, overturn dresser drawers, and spray yellow streams all over the place” (pg 225) The nuns there do not approve of this, there faces during this time are “pinched with displeasure” (pg 225) As said in the epigraph, the girls are having fun and acting excited about their new, foreign place to stay. They are very wild of course, but are also interested in what comes before them. As they develop they see the different sides of St. Lucy’s.
In Karen Russell's book “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” the girls learn what it is like to be human and how they adjust to our culture. The main character is a wolf girl named Claudette, we watch her go from cote human as she moves through the stages of Lycanthropic Culture Shock. During the first stage of St. Lucy’s home for girls Claudette has developed as the handbook (epigraph) tells her to. The handbook says that everything is new and exciting for your students and that they will enjoy learning about their new environment.
In the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, the girls go through a lot of changes. In the story the girls are experience changes, because everything is new to them, and they are wanting to explore the new place. Another change they are experiencing is, they are rejecting their host culture. The final change the girls are experiencing is that they are finding they are adapting to the new culture, so they become fully bilingual.
In the short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” written by Karen Russell, a pack of wolf girls leave their home in the woods for St. Lucy’s in order to be able to live in human society. Within the story, Russell has included epigraphs before each stage from The Jesuit Handbook for Lycanthropic Culture Shock. This handbook was for the nuns at St. Lucy’s to help guide their students. Karen Russell included the epigraphs, short quotations at the beginning of a chapter intended to suggest a theme, from the handbook to help the reader understand what the characters might be feeling or how they will act in a certain stage. In Stage One, the epigraph closely relates to the characters’ development, yet doesn’t consider that the girls could be fearful in their new home due to interactions with the nuns.
Lucy’s was suggested as a guide to uniting the lycanthropy and human cultures, but the nuns had another plan. However, with their “wolf in sheep’s clothing” (267), Jeanette outwardly displayed her growing connection to the learned culture, but she still feels the connection to the woods. When reading a novel about wolves drinking from a pond in the forest (270). Jeanette starts crying because she longs for the naivety that existed pre-St. Lucy’s. Stripping these girls of their furs and comfort they are forced to adapt to the cold and isolate themselves to thrive.
How may one feel if everything known strips away from them? In St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, a short story by Karen Russell, the wolf pack goes to St. Lucy’s Home to become more civilized. As the journey continues, Claudette learns how to successfully leave her origins and adapt to human life. In the early stages of the story, Claudette faces many challenges whether it involves identity, family, or overstimulation.
In the short story "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell, the main character, Claudette, struggles to fit into the human world after being raised by wolves. The community of St. Lucy's Home, a boarding school for girls like Claudette, enhances her conflict by forcing her to conform to human behavior and suppress her wolf instincts. The theme of the story is the struggle to find one's identity and the consequences of denying one's true nature. Similarly, in the excerpt from "Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone" by Brené Brown, the main character faces conflict for not fitting into a specific community.
In the story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, the author, Karen Russell, uses feral diction to establish that although people strive for perfectionism in their lives, people cannot become someone or something that they are not, thus causing a loss of identity. Russell uses feral diction in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” to prove that people cannot change who the are. For example, Kyle tried to talk to Claudette, but just succeeded in annoying her instead. Claudette immediately reacted and, according to the story, “I narrowed my eyes at Kyle and flattened my ears, something I hadn’t done for months” (249).
There are many literary devices used across stories. Color imagery is one of these literary devices that is used when colors give objects a symbolic meaning. In the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, girls who have been raised as wolves are thrust into the unknown as they are forced to adapt to human society. Their childhood was spent living with wolves, however they are taken in by nuns of St. Lucy’s who attempt to assimilate them into the human world through different phases. Throughout the story, color imagery is used to emphasize the key theme of unity, establish the conflicted tone, and metaphorically develop Claudette’s character.
On the other hand, The Doll’s House’s Kelveys had always been outcasts and rarely spoke to others. Since they didn’t rely on other people as much and were more introverted, being made into outcasts as a family was still hard but easier to adapt to. “... she scarcely ever spoke. She went through life holding on to Lil, with a piece of Lil’s skirt screwed up in her hand. Where Lil went, Our Else followed,” (Mansfield 204).
Karen Russel’s narrator, Claudette in the short story “St. Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves” has a guilty hope that she fails to adapt to her new human culture and exhibits her instinctive wolve traits showing that Claudette has not successfully adapted to the human culture. Claudette wishes to adapt to the human culture but has a difficult time accepting it. The St. Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves is for girls to learn the human culture. The faster the girls go through the stages, the faster they have adapted and accepted their new culture and can be released. While Claudette acts as if the human culture is growing on her
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.
