St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Chapter Summary

Through all the stages of Lycanthropic Culture shock in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by wolves” by Karen Russell, the girls will be making a cultural change. The pack will have to adjust to the “human culture.” While they are assimilating into this culture, they are going to have to make progress quickly, adapt, and over all, enjoy their new culture. The girls must progress quickly because the monks are expecting them to hook on quickly. Next, they must adapt because they will never succeed at St Lucy’s if they don’t. Lastly they must enjoy this new culture because it’s how some of them will spend the rest of their lives. In the first stages, the girls begin to explore their new culture at St Lucy’s. When they first arrive “they began to fear through the austere rooms at St. Lucy’s”. While they are tearing through the rooms, the girls are feeling weird because they haves never experience this. After exploring, they find some girls that they thought were “backwoods” girls. At the end of stage 1, the girls are starting to adapt to the culture at St. Lucy’s, but they had to change was their scent. After all the searching around St Lucy’s, they notice the scent is the same they had back home. The girls will hopefully get to really adapt

Lucy’s. They begin to start adapting to the human culture by changing their food habits. Before they come to St. Lucy’s, they make a promise to their parents that they will adapt at St. Lucy’s and change their host culture to a human culture. Later, most of the girls are beginning to progress at St. Lucy’s, but Mirabella is not. They find her “wading in the shadows to strangle a mallard with her rosary beads”. The girls try to help her, but she does not listen. She broke the promise the pack made to their parents. In stage two and three, most of the girls are learning adaptations, they are looking at a whole new life ahead of