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.
In ”St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, Russell writes a short story regarding a group of girls, whose parents are werewolves. Their parent sent them to St. Lucy’s to be reformed into civilized humans and become functional members of society. Russell choses to divide the text into sections using an epigraph explaining what is expected in that stage, consisting of an excerpt from a fictitious guide, The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock. In Stage Two, Russell use the epigraph to describes how the wolf girls should behave and react in this stage. Some characters developed in this image and some stray from the description.
As a parent would you send your child off with strangers, if you were lead to believe that those strangers could give your child a better life? In St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, By Karen Russell, children are taken from their parents, but since the werewolf gene skips a generation, these children are not really werewolves. A group of nuns come to take them to school to teach them to be human. In St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Claudette was mean, sad and afraid, but was able to adapt to her new life. Claudette was sad, because she was taken from her parents and she couldn’t return, even after she graduated from 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.
Ellie Wiesel, an author who wrote about his near death experience of being sent to a Concentration Camp in his book , Night, named his book after the darkness found in those who captured and tortured over six million people. The Jewish, Gypsies, and the Homosexuals were the main groups who were captured by German Dictator Adolf Hitler and his soldiers. In 1944, Wiesel and his family was captured in their neighborhood and was sent to Auschwitz. Wiesel, who was fifteen at the time, lied about his age in order to stay alive and be sent to work instead with the able-bodied. The able-bodied were those who were not too young, anyone under eighteen, or too old, those who were over forty-five.
As I was, reading the excerpt of Night by Ellie Wiesel, I would begin to express empathy towards the author as he had to struggle through various unsanitary, horrendous places. Throughout these areas the narrator explains how his human rights and basic needs are stripped away. According to Humanitarian Coalitions site “The essential humanitarian needs are food, shelter, non-shelter food items,water,sanitation and hygiene promotion.” Lines 17-20, demonstrate how each prisoner had their essential rights taken away “ Buna was a real hell then. There was no water, no blankets, less soup and bread.
Through the use of her short story, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell tries and succeeds in pushing the idea that being civilized does not equal being better. All too often, being civilized automatically comes with an association of being greater than everyone, and anyone who is uncivilized is associated with being lesser or even unhuman. Russell’s goal in writing this short story is to throw away that bias and show that there is more than one way to live life. One of the main themes throughout this short story is the idea that what works for one person will not essentially work for another; there is no correct way to live life. A prime example of this theme is the obvious difference of standards of living between the nuns at St. Lucy’s and the pack of
“Gore”: A Compelling Story! In the short story “Gore” by Sarah Ellis, we see a compelling story between two siblings, which results in a very good short story. Firstly, while reading the story, the author has a very descriptive and unique writing style which helps engage the reader. We can see this when Amy claims, “I am a stealth bomber with no aviation fuel”
A Changing Life In the story St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves a pack of young werewolf girls are put through rigorous training to become proper young women. Three sisters, Jeanette, Claudette, and Mirabella arrive at the church and immediately start to transform their dorm rooms into their caves. Throughout the story the girls have to follow difficult rules in order to move from stage to stage until graduation. Claudette shows more promise of completing the transformation from a wild beast to a young proper lady.
In “Gore” by Sarah Ellis, Amy exhibits the character trait of being intelligent when she demonstrates an extensive vocabulary, a love for reading, and strategic planning. While describing differences between her twin brother and herself, Amy claims to have an extensive vocabulary. “…My two areas of superior fire, an extensive vocabulary…” (Ellis) Even in this quote she reveals her strong vocabulary by using words such as superior and extensive. The amount of reading Amy takes part in definitely contributes to her well-built vocabulary. Reading has been proven to increase a person’s vocabulary and make them more knowledgeable.
Through the story "Julie of The wolves", I think the character Miyax, who likes living on the tundra but she thought about her father in the past. The fact that Julie has never seen these things makes even her town in Alaska seem painfully behind the times. For example, Miyax is in the middle of a battle between looked forward to come back her village but did not leave the wolves in tundra. A similar situation to me because I lived in America but I missed my grandmother in my country. Moreover, I chose to stay in America with my parents like Miyax did in the story, Another example, I felt there was the difficulty of the choice two different parts of my life.
Sophie’s Surviving Story In our book Endangered by Eliot Schrefer, Sophie survives by using smart thinking, good planning, and luck. She navigates her way to safety and staying alive through the war. On the one hand, Sophie uses smart thinking to navigate the jungle and to safety. Some ways she uses smart thinking are staying in unpopulated areas, talking to locals who knew what was happening, and so on.
In the book “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” There is an Lycanthropic culture handbook carried by the nuns that have five stages contain what should happen to the girls. In the story the packs parents send the girls off to the human world in hope that they would have a better life. All of the girls are having to learn how to adapt to there new life. One of the girls which is Claudette developed by the nuns handbook thought the five stages it the book. Claudette seems to follow the Lycanthropic culture shock which is the handbook used by the nuns.
In Karen Russell’s short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, she develops the progression of the characters in relation to The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock. The characters, young girls raised as if they were wolves, are compared to the handbook with optimism that they will adapt to the host culture. The girls’ progression in the five set stages are critical to their development at St. Lucy’s. The author compares Claudette, the narrator, to the clear expectations the handbook sets for the girls’ development. Claudette’s actions align well with the five stages, but she has outbursts that remind her of her former self.
This is a story about a boy who moves to a new town, and is getting used to the environment. He had to overcome the burden of peer pressure, and he was in much need of God’s salvation even though he was from a Christian family. The title of this book is Message of the Mountain. The author of the book is Matilda Nordtvelt; the book is a Christian fiction.
