Summary Of St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolf

Learning to develop and adapt in a new place can be difficult. Yet, converting from one culture to another can be almost nonviable. The story St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell is about a pack of young sisters who have to learn and process the ways of human culture. In the story, the girls go through different stages that help them develop into their own human character. Claudette, the narrator, goes through some tough times trying to learn the human manner. During the stages, she will go through many emotions and decisions to try and develop her character that relates to the stages in the story. At first, Claudette’s personality didn’t just belong to herself. She and her sisters had done the same activities together. “The pack used to dream the same dreams back then, as naturally as we drank the same water and

This was the stage where she tried to follow the rules and try to acquire the human ways. “Keep your mouth shut, I repeated during our walking drills, staring straight ahead. Keep your shoes on your feet” (pg. 240). The statement is emphasizing that she is trying to keep her wolf side to herself and awakening the new human side that she will soon become. She is not yet fully thinking of herself in this stage. She and her “pack” worry about the youngest sister Mirabella. “The pack was worried for Mirabella. Mirabella would rip foamy chunks of the church pews and replace them with ham bones and girl dander” (pg. 240). She was also a little jealous of the oldest sister Jeanette who was on the top of everyone else. “The pack hated Jeanette. She was the most successful of us, the one furthest removed from her origins” (pg. 241). The stage states that after a certain amount of time the students might be stressed and often daydream and feel isolated. “We spent a lot of time daydreaming during this period” (pg. 242). That sentence proves what stage two had