As a parent would you send your child off with strangers, if you were lead to believe that those strangers could give your child a better life? In St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, By Karen Russell, children are taken from their parents, but since the werewolf gene skips a generation, these children are not really werewolves. A group of nuns come to take them to school to teach them to be human. In St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Claudette was mean, sad and afraid, but was able to adapt to her new life. Claudette was sad, because she was taken from her parents and she couldn’t return, even after she graduated from St. Lucy’s. she wanted to run away so bad, her and her sisters would stay up all night. On page 246 in paragraph 3 Claudette shows her sadness by saying “we had never wanted to run away so badly; but who did we have to run back to?” She would stay up all night trying to learn how to be human. She practice how to dance when she found out about the dance and meeting the brothers. …show more content…
She didn’t know she was going away for good, and she didn’t know where she was going. But she knew when the nuns came, her parents couldn’t turn down their offer. She knew she couldn’t disappoint her parents but even if she would have gone back, she wasn’t going to be accepted back into the pack. She show that she’s afraid on page 246 in paragraph 2 when she finds out about the dance she says “They knew we weren’t ready to dance with the brothers, we weren’t even ready to talk to them. Claudette was also afraid when they went to the dance. She was trying to go over with Mirabella, but her brother back to the middle of the dance floor in front of everybody. She was so scared that she just sat