Adjusting to a different culture is not easy. This is what takes place in the short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell. The story is about a pack of wolf girls who are forced to live in a new cultural society. These wolf girls will have to disregard their past cultures and adapt to the ways of regular humans, like their parents wanted them too. How the wolf girls react to their new surroundings by finding everything new, exciting, and interesting is what makes the epigraph in stage 1. The first epigraph of the book gives you the most detailed clue about what the rest of the book will be about. It explains how all the wolf girls are forced to live in a new environment. Most wolves that are under these conditions …show more content…
The girls at St. Lucy’s are very uncivilized and “tear through austere rooms, overturn dresser drawers, and spray yellow streams all over the place” (pg 225) The nuns there do not approve of this, there faces during this time are “pinched with displeasure” (pg 225) As said in the epigraph, the girls are having fun and acting excited about their new, foreign place to stay. They are very wild of course, but are also interested in what comes before them. As they develop they see the different sides of St. Lucy’s. The 1st epigraph is a major key to the development of the pack. According to the text, “At first our pack was all hair and snarl.”(pg 225) This example indicates how the pack was, at first, quite messy. But according to context clues, the girls will develop into a more civilized pack. For example, Sister Maria says, “you must be patient with them”(226) and “Stage 1 can be a little over stimulating”(229). These examples show how the girls are guaranteed to change and develop into their new lives. During this stage all the girls will experience new things as they develop and become aware of their new