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's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves, The Bell Cricket, And A Hunger Artist

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All short stories use the elements of fiction, some are used more subtly than others. In the stories St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket, and A Hunger Artist, the elements of fiction create stories that are similar but also different from each other. All three stories have characters dealing with some sort of struggle, they all seem to have a more serious tone. Even though they are similar, the stories are also different. They all hold different meanings and teach different messages. The elements of fiction are able to help the reader understand the story as well as give it personality and body. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and A Hunger Artist both contain characters that are stubborn …show more content…

If I had found it, believe me, I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else’”(Kafka 675). The Hunger artist said this as he was dying, showing that he allowed his dislike for food to control his life to the point that he ended up dying from not eating and being too weak. Readers should make note that this is something that they shouldn’t do in their own lives because it will end up hurting them and causing problems in the long run. In St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, the reader is taught that not everyone is meant to fit in. Mirabella wasn’t able, and refused, to pick up the new rules and actions that she was told to learn, instead she held onto her old wolf ways and ended up being shunned. This shows that when someone is different and doesn’t change, they are looked down upon, even by the people they were once close to. Mirabella’s sisters were able to change and adapt to human society, but since Mirabella couldn't she was chased away. “But the truth is that by Stage 3 I wanted her gone. Mirabella’s inability to adapt was taking a visible toll”(Russell 271). Her sisters were worried about her but couldn’t help her for fear of reverting back or getting

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