St. Lucy's Home For Girls Killed By Wolf Analysis

Many people, every single day, live in the constant fear of the world around them changing and them not having the control to do anything to stop it. Some live in the constant fear of always disappointing the ones they love. The fear that they will not be loyal enough to the family that raised them, only to end up disappointing them anyways. Some have the fear that the world is changing around them and they cannot keep up with it all. Ignoring the change will not make it go away. It only makes it harder to face the fear of change when it finally all falls into place. Others have a fear of the unknown. The fear that the family they once knew is changing and there is nothing to stop it. Fear has a way of grabbing onto every single emotion possible.

When it is threatened to have that family taken away some people shut down or even fight back even harder. The fear of change makes living life seem impossible. In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, Mirabella had the fear of changing not only herself but the lifestyle that she had gotten used to. She was afraid of changing because she did not want a new family. She was loyal to her wolf family and that was the only family she wanted. No matter how much the nuns tried, Mirabella did not see them as her family because they were not like her and she was not willing to change to please them. “She used her hands to flatten her ears to the side of her head. She backed towards the far corner of the garden, snarling in the most menacing register an eight-year-old wolf girl can muster” (Russell 231). Mirabella refused to end up the way her pack did. She refused to go against her family and change who she was

Or to stay a wolf and get thrown out of the pack, but be loyal to her family’s ways. Either way she would have to find a new home. Scholar Malin stated that, “And we know that she will never be ‘at home’ with wolves or humans” (Malin 1). Mirabella had lost her place in the world but she would not change and she would never leave her sisters when they needed her. Even though her sisters changed and abandoned her, she was still always willing to help them when they needed. Mirabella was completely terrified of the changes happening around her, yet she was the only one that stayed loyal to her sisters. “Mirabella had intercepted my eye-cry for help. She’s chewed through her restraints and tackled me from behind, barking at unseen cougars, trying to shield me with her tiny body” (Russell 239). She knew that by getting out of her restraints and tackling her sister she would be thrown out of the house and her pack for good. Mirabella’s fear of changing into someone she was not made her lose her sisters but she was loyal to her family until she was not able to any longer.

In “A Rose for Emily”, Tobe was the most loyal family Emily ever had. Though he was simply the servant, he never left her side. Emily did not know what a true loving relationship was like. The only love she knew was from her father, but that love was abusive and controlling. “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away” (Faulkner 518).