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.
Ashlynn Turner ENG 9H Block 2 9/30/22 U1 Summative Paragraph The short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell presents the concept that conformity forced onto groups results in them forfeiting their capability to function as a group. In this story, Russell follows the story of Claudette, a girl taken away from everything she knows to study a seemingly better culture. In this story, Claudette looked back on her past at St. Lucy’s school for girls raised by wolves.
Karen Russell's “St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves” is a story of lycanthropic girls who have been raised by their wolf parents who are being assimilated into human culture by forceful nuns. Claudette is the main character who is also telling the story. She faces many achievements and struggles, but by the end of the story Claudette has clearly conformed to human culture. This is supported when Claudette shows her loss of wolf-like traits, such as when she loses compassion for her pack members, and in the later stages when she starts to have complex human thoughts and starts to lose detectable traces of her wolf origins. Claudette encounters cultural shock and struggles to assimilate, however, she also reaches many milestones on her journey to becoming human.
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.
In the short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” written by Karen Russell, a pack of wolf girls leave their home in the woods for St. Lucy’s in order to be able to live in human society. Within the story, Russell has included epigraphs before each stage from The Jesuit Handbook for Lycanthropic Culture Shock. This handbook was for the nuns at St. Lucy’s to help guide their students. Karen Russell included the epigraphs, short quotations at the beginning of a chapter intended to suggest a theme, from the handbook to help the reader understand what the characters might be feeling or how they will act in a certain stage. In Stage One, the epigraph closely relates to the characters’ development, yet doesn’t consider that the girls could be fearful in their new home due to interactions with the nuns.
In Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, one learns about Mirabella, the youngest girl in the pack, yet the one who fights back the change the strongest. Throughout this text, readers can observe numerous examples of Mirabella's rebellion and her refusal to fall in line. Mirabella’s journey captures the exploration of resistance, autonomy, and the issues of societal categorization within the beautiful storytelling by Karen Russell. Within stages 1 and 2, one can see the challenges that Mirabella undergoes, standing strong for her true identity. To begin, readers see how she was prone to fight back and try to get away, even just at the beginning of their stay, “Then she ran.
In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, Claudette, Mirabella, and Jeanette is taken to a foreign place to adapt to human nature. They are taken through the process of 5 stages of becoming human. Claudette, the speaker of the story, is stuck between two faces, the human and the wolf face. While Claudette is in between these two worlds, she has fully conformed from wolf to human. She has completed the transformation from wolf to human because her own mother doesn 't recognize her, trying to make herself seem more like human, and not even caring about her own fellow wolf mates anymore.
People who endure dislocation feel out of place and have many mixed emotions. Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” tells the story of a group of girls who suffer from lycanthropy including Jeanette, Claudette, and Mirabella. The “pack” of girls go through many stages to rehabilitate to their human identity. The girls experience culture shock and have to work as they progress through the stage.
In the story, St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, some wolf girls are taken to a school to be human. Some of the girls were able to change and graduate and some didn’t. In the story, Mirabella was slow, destructive, and failed to do her task. Have you ever met a slow person who didn’t try? Well, in this story Mirabella was the slow one.
In the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” author Karen Russell develops the narrator, Claudette, through the use of five “stages” to show her progression from her wolf identity to the human culture. This short story follows a group of girls raised by wolf parents through their journey at St. Lucy’s, which is a rehabilitation center for human children raised by wolf parents. Throughout their time at St. Lucy’s, the girls are expected to experience five distinct stages as they adapt. Each of these stages is described by a fictional text entitled The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock. The nuns at St. Lucy’s use it as a guide for teaching their students.
Karen Russel’s narrator, Claudette in the short story “St. Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves” has a guilty hope that she fails to adapt to her new human culture and exhibits her instinctive wolve traits showing that Claudette has not successfully adapted to the human culture. Claudette wishes to adapt to the human culture but has a difficult time accepting it. The St. Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves is for girls to learn the human culture. The faster the girls go through the stages, the faster they have adapted and accepted their new culture and can be released. While Claudette acts as if the human culture is growing on her
There are many literary devices used across stories. Color imagery is one of these literary devices that is used when colors give objects a symbolic meaning. In the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, girls who have been raised as wolves are thrust into the unknown as they are forced to adapt to human society. Their childhood was spent living with wolves, however they are taken in by nuns of St. Lucy’s who attempt to assimilate them into the human world through different phases. Throughout the story, color imagery is used to emphasize the key theme of unity, establish the conflicted tone, and metaphorically develop Claudette’s character.
In her hauntingly beautiful novel Tell The Wolves I’m Home, author Carol Rifka Brunt introduces readers to June Elbus, a distinctively shy, sensitive, and gloomy teenage girl growing up in New York in 1986-1987. June’s favorite uncle and person Finn has AIDS, a disease that takes his life in the early part of the book. June learns that Finn had a lover, Toby. At the end of the story readers see June and Toby forming an unlikely friendship. Regardless of the fact that she does so unconventionally, Carol Rifka Brunt tells the story Tell The Wolves I’m Home as a coming of age story.
Would you be heartbroken if a member of your loving family suddenly died right in front of you due to things that didn 't understand? What about if you repeated the same day over and over and over again until the end of time? The same people every day until you die, on a small island that nobody’s ever heard of. But don’t forget that if you try to leave, you turn into a wrinkly old person that ages years in minutes? Could you handle all this?
As a result, the protagonist in does not live in fear of the darkness, rather she anticipates it and “seiz[es] her knife on the beast” (Carter 1). Therefore, the protagonist in “The Werewolf” is not portrayed as the young, mistreated protagonist because she has already gone through the transition of having to grow up and fend for herself. For example, after killing the beast on her way to her grandmother’s house, the protagonist states, “[the] wolves are less brave than they seem” to reflect how the protagonist has a high self esteem and is confident in her abilities to fend for herself (Carter 1). Due to the history and harsh conditions of the Northern Country where the protagonist resides, their hearts form superstitions that everyone is a witch or a devil. Because of this, innocent people get stoned or hurt because the whole town is looking for reasons to prove certain people's lives that are too good are supernatural
