Raised By Wolf Quotes

Have you ever been ostracized and put into a new environment? In the text St.Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell shows wolf girls being converted into a civilized community. Considering how Claudette feels after treatment at St.Lucy's, Claudette has not assimilated to human society.
Despite Claudette´s accomplishments and struggles, Claudette has not converted from her origins and still has feelings about her past and can not be fully adapted for human society.
Even with the help from St.Lucy´s they can almost never change a person for who they are, they will always have their natural instinct. Throughout St.lucy's home for girls raised by wolves,stages 1-4, Russell shows Claudette struggles of speaking English

¨(Russell.227) In addition to the quote above, Russell shows that Claudette is struggling to leave her origins of her native talk, this shows by it being apparent that these are not civilized actions. Therefore showing that she is struggling with this foreign language that she is expected to learn.
Following this, another example of her struggles is her having a diorenting change that is shown in the following quote, “It impossible to make the blank, chilly bedroom feel like home.¨(Russell.230) Considering this quote, Russell uses it to show that Claudette does not feel at home. Cludette feels lonely and blank within this desolate room compared to how she felt in her initial habitat.This is a struggle she faces within the beginning of not feeling at home. Drawing this together, Claudette is struggling to adapt to her new environment and the new language and receive an extensive culture shock. Even considering Claudetts struggles, Claudette has many accomplishments since she has learned to adapt slowly by drifting from her origins and becoming more

Claudette isn't completely hating the place she is enjoying the chapel, considering how she despises the place at all at first this is a successful confidence to what the nuns want for the pack. Another example of one of Claudettes is when she can finally start to hold some of her primal instincts back; this can be shown in the following, “ “Why do you cry?” I asked her, instinctively reaching over to lick Jeanette’s cheek and catching myself in the nick of time.¨ (Russell.239) In addition to this quote, the way she is feeling is her natural response, but she has been ostracized and taught to not act in her natural way. This can be very disorienting to her, considering how she has been raised and how she is now all of a sudden not allowed to comfort someone the only way she knows how . Concluding the following Claudette has gained some accomplishments in rehabilitation learning how to not concave into her natural instincts and how she is starting to accept St. Lucy´s for what it is. Based on some of the struggles and accomplishments that Russle shows above, proves that Claudette has not successfully adapted to human