Epigraph Analysis: Lycanthropic Culture

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1.What is an epigraph? An epigraph is located at the beginning of the story and it is used to describe briefly what the story is going to be about. 2. Who is the intended audience of this story (handbook)? I think that the audience of this story could be the nuns or the people in charge of the girls because in stage 1, it is written in second person. 3. If you break apart the term Lycanthropic Culture Shock into parts, what is it describing? Lycanthropic Culture Shock might be the impact of their lifestyle in a werewolf. It could mean that they know their werewolf culture and they struggle a lot to change it and start acting as humans because of how they are already used to it. 4. Who is “the pack”? The pack is a group of girls who

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