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In Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk, there is a new girl named Betty and she is a horrible person. Her cruelty exceeds normal bullying; when she is close to dying, she tells a lie that ends up killing the town vagrant, Toby. Betty’s bullying built up over time, starting with small threats of bruises and a lie that led to the killing of an innocent man. It starts with Betty making threats to Annabelle about her family, and then Annabelle ends up with a bruise. She is so mean that she gets shipped to a different town because of how cruel she is and Annabelle says “She was described as incorrigible, a word I had to look up in the big dictionary at the school house”(Wolk 5).
Did you know that an estimated 4000 to 12,000 died on the Trail of Tears while trying to relocate for assimilation? The Trail of Tears was one of the biggest relocations in history. This was only one step in the many that it took for the American Indian to become fully assimilated into the American culture. The forced assimilation of American Indians was to be regarded with as a huge event which could be paired with the events of assimilation of the girls in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.” In the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by wolves you can see the visible evidence that the girls are becoming more and more assimilated into human culture.
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 the story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, the author, Karen Russell, uses feral diction to establish that although people strive for perfectionism in their lives, people cannot become someone or something that they are not, thus causing a loss of identity. Russell uses feral diction in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” to prove that people cannot change who the are. For example, Kyle tried to talk to Claudette, but just succeeded in annoying her instead. Claudette immediately reacted and, according to the story, “I narrowed my eyes at Kyle and flattened my ears, something I hadn’t done for months” (249).
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, short story is about the difficulty growing up in a foreign world known to a group of girls. Claudette, the protagonist, explains the crucial life it is expecting to adapt and fully integrate into human society. Throughout the story, she illustrates the lessons needed to incorporate the new adjusts but still have her lycan culture remain in her. She is between the new cultures and her contradicting self to fully integrate. By the end of the story there is confusion towards her complete integration in human society whether or not Claudette is integrated in human society.
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.
Julie of the wolves is book that tells the story of Julie a 13-year old girl who lives in Alaska. The setting of the story is Alaska with an Arctic tundra climate,. Julie hass another name in the story she is called Miyax, an Eskimo name. She is a classic Eskimo girl, with a round face, black eyes and a strong body.
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.
Can uncontrollable self accusations eventually overtake over your everyday mental state? Can your thoughts really in time take full control over you, your entire body and each and every judgment in life? In Laurie Halse Anderson novel Wintergirls we are transferred into the protagonist's mind of Lia. A young 18 year old high school student that suffers from an eating disorder. Lia is tortured so severely from her disease that her day to day ambition is her own weight.
Mariana De Oliveira Souza English 221 Professor Ison 2 April 2023 Short Paper Two: An Informal Analysis of Jane Schoolcraft’s “Mishosha, or The Magician of the Lakes” (1827) Unlike the previous three hundred years of European settlement in America, the Post-Revolutionary war period welcomed a new literary era to the continent. Thus, new literary styles began surging across the country as American-born authors strove to create pieces that differed from European written works (Kurtz 1). Jane Schoolcraft was an American author whose works were an addition to this period with a mix of European and native-inspired stories that employ clever plot structure, character composition, and word choices to introduce Native American culture to white folks
This shows that the girls still possess their animal instinct, but are overpowered with the strong sense of curiosity to the life that the humans live. Claudette even mentions that they had forgotten “the barked cautions of [their] mothers
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
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.
“Wolves! Wolves!” They yelled together. “Hands up! Or I shoot!” They were surrounded by the townspeople and they had bows and arrows.
In Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, Red kills the wolf. Theories developed in Thomas Hobbes “Leviathan”, plainly validate that Red is justified in killing the wolf. To begin, Red is justified because there is no established order in her society. Hobbes states, “to this war against every man, this is also consequent, that nothing can be unjust” (Hobbes 13). In a world where talking wolves knock on doors and eat innocent Grandmas, one can assume that there is no established order and thus no laws to govern behaviour.
