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.
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.
To move one-step up can sometimes mean pushing someone else down. In Karen Russell’s story,“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” she conveys this adage through the story of girls who were raised by wolves for the first part of their lives. The story is told through the voice of one specific character, whose name is Claudette. She is the middle sister between Jeanette, the oldest, and Mirabella, the youngest.
In the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell there is a clear tone present through the whole reading. The tone in this story is the desire to be successful. The wolf girls are taken to St. Lucy’s so they can successfully be trained on how to be civilized. Their families have sent them away so they can make a better life for themselves. The parents of the girls were not accepted by the locals because of they are unable to act civilized.
Close Reading: St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Excerpt: “… Not great not terrible, solidly middle of the pack… I probably could have vied with Jeanette for the number-one spot… This wasn’t like the woods, where you had to be your fastest…self. Different sorts of calculations were required to survive...” (Russell 233).
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.
Ransby wrote about the complexity of Ella Baker's life. Ransby stated: "for me, in looking back as Baker's life in all of its rich complexity" (Ransby, Pg). In the writing the biography, Ransby brought to life a person in her writing. Her argument centered on the idea of complexity. The complexity of Baker's life leads to the importance of her legacy.
Learning to develop and adapt in a new place can be difficult. Yet, converting from one culture to another can be almost nonviable. The story St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell is about a pack of young sisters who have to learn and process the ways of human culture. In the story, the girls go through different stages that help them develop into their own human character. Claudette, the narrator, goes through some tough times trying to learn the human manner.
In “St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” By Karen Russell, Claudette tries to adapt to the culture of a human. Claudette’s progression ties in to what each epigraph states. The reader learns to understand Claudette’s place in the pack and her character. Claudette in every stage has different actions and responses to her sisters. Also to the new things they learn.
Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” tells the story of a group of girls who experience lycanthropy. The girls go through five stages of rehabilitation on their journey to human identity. An epigraph before each stage is included to help with the organization and structure of the story. It also includes behaviors rehabilitators should expect from the students and is taken from The Lycanthropic Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock. The rehabilitators use the handbook to understand how the students might react to the different stages.
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
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.
Trying to prevent neglected children and back-alley abortions, Margaret Sanger gave the moving speech, “The Children’s Era,” in 1925 to spread information on the benefits and need for birth control and women's rights. Margaret Sanger--activist, educator, writer, and nurse--opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. During most of the 1900’s, birth control and abortions were illegal in the United States, causing women to give birth unwillingly to a child they must be fully responsible for. This caused illness and possible death for women attempting self-induced abortion. Sanger uses literary devices such as repetition and analogies
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.
“The Chase” is about an adult chasing some kids, but Annie Dillard makes the story transition from throwing snowballs to “wanting the glory to last forever” and how the excitement of life at one moment can affect someone in the future to show that the excitement of life will always be there even when one is no longer a kid. The story starts with a group of friends, imagining how a game of football goes and continues with the encounter of a stranger. From throwing snowballs at his car to him chasing them till they couldn’t run anymore. The whole experience will change the way she looks at adults. “We all spread out banged together some regular snowballs, took aim, and, when the Buick drew near, fired.
