St. Lucy Home For Girls Raised By Wolf Chapter Summary

In St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, a group of 15 girls were introduced to the home. In the story, only a few of those girls were focused on. This is because they wanted to show the range of development between the girls. Some never learned how to be civilized and human, and others did very well on learning how to be human. The story mainly focuses on Claudette, Mirabella, and Jeanette. The most important out of the three girls is Claudette. Claudette was one of the girls that were successfully integrated into human society.
In Stage 1, the girls were first introduced into the home. This was when everything was new to the girls, as it states in the epigraph. “At first, our pack was all hair and snarl and floor-thumping joy.” (Russell,

“But the truth is, by Stage 3, I wanted Mirabella gone.” (Russell, pg.245). Claudette was starting to hate her sister, as Claudette was realizing she was learning that the human culture wasn’t so bad. In this stage, the pack had met some ‘pure-bred’ girls. The pack was starting to obtain more communication skills, and they were learning more about how human culture and society works. The ‘pure-bred’ girls had sold gift-paper so that the girls could have bicycles. After they learned to ride bicycles, they were learning to dance. If the girls learned to dance correctly, then they would celebrate with a ball. “That night I waited until my sisters were asleep. Then I slunk into the closet and practiced the Sausalito two-step in secret.” (Russell, pg.246). Claudette was trying to be like Jeanette, who was doing the best at the dance so

I fell to the ground, my skirt falling softly over my head. Mirabella had intercepted my eye-cry for help. She’d chewed through her restraints and tackled me from behind.” (Russel, pg.250). Mirabella had tackled Claudette, and in that moment Claudette loved her sister. After that stunt, Mirabella had been expelled from the school. “We graduated from St. Lucy’s shortly thereafter, As far as I can recollect, that was our last communal howl.” (Russell, pg.251) Claudette finally learned how to fit into human society.
Finally, In Stage 5, Claudette had “a special pass to go visit the parents.” (Russell, pg.251). “They stared up at me expectantly, panting in the cool grey envelope of the cave, waiting for a display of what I had learned. ‘So,’ I said, telling my first human lie. ‘I’m home.’” (Russell, pg.252). Claudette was able to lie to her parents, showing that she had completely learned human nature and culture. Technically, she was showing what she had learned to them. She was able to lie, which showed that she had learned a lot about human nature, and how it