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

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Whether no one would like to admit it or not, change is a difficult and not to mention uncomfortable experience which we all must endure at one point in our lives. A concept that everyone must understand is that change does not occur immediately, for it happens overtime. It could take days, weeks, months, or even years. In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by-Karen Russell, she talks about three werewolf girls trying to fit in the human society. The author makes it evident to the readers that the narrator, which is claudette is in a brand new environment as the story begins. This strange short story about girls raised by wolves being trained by nuns to be more human in character. You will read about how the girls are forced to make …show more content…

They start to learn how people could live in these conditions. Your students may feel that their own cultures ;lifestyles and customs are far superior to those of the host country.” In stage 3 Claudette starts to learn more things that most normal human girls do like learns to play checkers, learns to ride a bike, and learns how to dance. This helps her to fit in as kid. Making it easier her to do stuff when she gets older and has to defend for herself. Claudette take dainty bites of peas. It shows that she’s changed out of the wolf culture and is starting to get use to the human culture and starting to eat human food. “If we were back home, and Mirabella had come under attack: I would have warned her. But the truth is that by stage 3 I wanted her gone.” This change means something. In a pack, wolf don’t give up on each other, but Claudette is giving up on Mirabella and just wants her out of the school. “She is improving her language skill “none of the pack besides me could read yet.” With Claudette improving her language skill, that means she is understanding the human society a lot more and is starting to accept …show more content…

When she went to see her parents, Claudette needs woodsman to accompany her on her visit home because she can’t remember her way back home. This shows that she no longer uses her wolf senses. Like she doesn’t just smell her way back like wolves do. She is no longer comfortable in a wolf setting the cave seemed a lot shorter than it seemed. This proves that her wolf like culture is gone from her. If it was still in her she would still feel comfortable in the environment but she doesn’t. She is no longer a part of the wolf family her brothers cried when she returned and said her first lie which was I’m

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