St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Scapegoat is defined as one that bears the blame for others or one that is the object of irrational behavior. Even though in retrospect the scapegoat has in some way failed in their own goals, we use scapegoats because it’s easy. When we don’t succeed in a particular goal or feel we are going to embarrass ourselves the person we blame is the person we assume to be the weakest. The weakest person is usually different from the norm and not the most popular they dance to their own beat. In the short story St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves the scapegoat is Mirabella the youngest girl in the pack. Mirabella starts her downward spiral when she is called on to introduce herself, but instead …show more content…
Jeanette was nervous because she had not yet learned how to Sausalito. While at the dance Jeanette met up with a friend she knew as Kyle. The worst thing happened to Jeanette Sister Maria announced “Every sister grab a brother.” It was time to Sausalito. Jeanette was worried and knew if she went out on the dance floor she would be embarrassed and fail her adaptive dancing test. Jeanette could not remember the dance steps. As Jeanette began she was knocked down by Mirabella. At that moment Jeanette loved Mirabella for getting her out of an embarrassing moment. Jeanette turned her back on Mirabella and yelled at her telling her she had ruined the ball. Yes at this moment Mirabella became the scapegoat and had been used as the scapegoat. Mirabella was kicked out of the school. In conclusion Mirabella was thought of as the weakest link in the pack. Mirabella had done nothing to make herself to look as if she belonged with the pack. Mirabella did learn one thing it was when your sisters are in trouble you do something to help. Mirabella just wasn’t as normal as the other wolves. Jeanette saw her opportunity to take all the attention off of herself and take her failure and make Mirabella her scapegoat. When Jeanette’s back was up against the wall she made Mirabella her
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” ― H.P. Lovecraft. Fear drives mankind to hate what he cannot comprehend. With this irrational fear mankind is controlled and set on a path of destruction and chaos. In the autobiography Never Cry Wolf written by Farley Mowat, the main character (Farley Mowat), journeys to the Canadian tundra to study the much-feared wolf. There he discovers the fear brought upon by men, and how it can result horribly for the wolves. The human race was so frightened by the unknown species that they began to blame the wolves for cold slaughters, portrayed them as vicious killers, and because of the fear of the unknown tried to exterminate wolves all together.
Scapegoats appear abundant in the world today. Political parties and businesses consistently seem to find a person or small group that takes the blame for serious issues. This can cause problems and arguments that sometimes lead to something serious like wars. Scapegoats are just a way of passing blame off of oneself and on to others, just so reputations can remain intact. This sort of attitude shows how lethargic the world has become, where people don’t even take responsibility for their actions. Many people from older generations complain about how all the new generations become too comatose and unwilling to take on their own actions and indiscretions. With attitudes like this, peace will never be found and will inevitably lead to conflict. Something must be done to stem the flow of scapegoats which have been utilized far too much over time.
Within the novel, “In the Time of the Butterflies,” Mate, Minerva, Dede, and Patria had to create decisions to overcome obstacles that would transform each of their lives. Throughout the book, all of the sisters changed somehow. They all grew up, matured, and saw things how they never viewed before. While looking at these things at a different perception, they learned to make decisions that were sometimes brave and sometimes cowardly. Each of the Mirabal sisters had to choose whether or not to be fearful and give up, or be courageous and stand her ground, or make sacrifices to show her strength throughout the novel.
Why is it that we as human beings feel the need to blame someone for every negative situation, which occurs? If we really look at the situation with any great depth, we may discover that an almost endless amount of things may be 'blamed' for the tragedy blaming an individual is pointless - only fate can really be blamed.
“St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell is a story about Claudette and her pack of wolf sisters learning how to adapt to the human society. Claudette starts off the program with a mentality of a wolf, like the rest of the girls. As she progresses into individual stages, she starts to change and adapt towards different characteristics of the human mentality. She shows good progress towards the human side based on what the Jesuit Handbook of Lycanthropia Culture Shock describes on behalf of what is suspected of the girls. But at the end of the story, Claudette is not fully adapted to the human society and mentality.
Some of them could have even been used as scapegoats. Yet how does one become a scapegoat? Could someone out there have that much hatred and anger to blame one person for the faults of many? Is the need for blame significant? Does desire lead to hatred and evil?
During this period, they make generalizations about the host culture and wonder how the people can live like they do. Your students may feel that their own culture’s lifestyle and customs are far superior to those of the host country” (Russell 244). In accordance to Claudette’s development, the epigraph is right, because Claudette says “I wondered what it would be like to be bred in captivity, and always homesick for a dimly sensed forest, the trees you’ve never seen” (Russell 245), just backing up the fact that Claudette or the pack does not know how the humans live the way they do. Another big development to Claudette’s character is when she was riding bikes into town. This is big because it shows her riding away from Mirabella, their symbolic wolf side and how Claudette is pedaling away from her past life as a
Gray Wolf Optimization Gray wolf optimization is presented in the following subsections based on the work in [13]. 1) Inspiration: Grey wolves are considered as apex predators, meaning that they are at the top of the food chain. Grey wolves mostly prefer to live in a pack. The group size is 512 on average. They have a very strict social dominant hierarchy.
In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls raised by Wolves”, the pack loved and helped each other before they became fully human. They were not only loyal, but compassionate. Whenever someone in the pack was hurt, the rest of them would show the injured, love. In spite of that, one time when Mirabella hurt herself and was covered with splinters, she turned to Claudette to help her but Claudette disregarded her and told her to “lick her own wounds” (Russell 244). Once Claudette had told her sister that, she immediately felt some sort of remorse as she said, “how can people live like they do” (Russell 244). Still, she shut that feeling out and told herself it was a stage 3 thought; to “reject their host culture” (Russell 244). Also, because Mirabella chose not to conform, the nuns decided they had to do something, “a something so awful that nobody wanted to assume responsibility for it” (Russell 245). Claudette wanted to help her sister, yet she was so blinded by being in Stage 3, that she rather created loathe for her sister since she would not conform. Claudette trusted that on the off chance that she demonstrated Mirabella sympathy, Mirabella would never leave her alone, and continue to act wolf like, which was not what Claudette wanted. Claudette wanted her and her sisters to respect her parent's desires and
There are many fictional elements that are important when it comes to short stories. These elements help the reader understand the story in more depth, and help to gain a better understanding of what the author’s purpose is. One of these elements is setting. Setting is the time and place in which a story takes place, it can help determine the mood, influence how characters’ act, change the dialog in the story and can reflect how the characters interact in society. In the short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” the setting is a very important element to show the development of the girls and how they changed throughout the story. There are two different places which we consider the setting. There is the church and the cave. With these two different settings we see different lessons being taught in each
Claudette says that Mirabella does not seem to be “aware” that her behavior is a “failing,” (p. 245) and the nuns are saying that she does not “try to earn Skill Points” and does not “even know how to say the word walnut” (p. 244).Which one of these is Claudette The wolf girls “understood that the chapel was the human’s moon, the place for howling beyond purpose” (p. 247). The chapel was the packs favorite place because they understood it was pretty much the wolves moon, except “it was not for mating, not for hunting, not for fighting, not for anything except the sound itself” (p. 247). The last two quotes from St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves provides us with a conclusion that states that the girls are moving on from wolf culture and are getting settled into the human
Scapegoating is a better way to experience success. Margaret Atwood speaks the truth when she states “When societies come under stress these kinds of things happen. People start looking around for essentially human sacrifices. They start looking around for somebody to blame.” In “Half- Hanged Mary” by ……. they used Mary as a scapegoat by blaming everything on her which lead to her hanging. Therefore I defend Margaret Atwood that a world under stress will eventually lead to people being demolished so they can feel better about themselves.
The author of the story “Strays”, Mark Richard, starts off with the main characters, the two brothers, lying in their beds listening to the sound of stray dogs beneath the floorboards, scratching their flee infested backs, and licking the water leaking from the pipes. The mother of the children runs off into the cornfields while the father chases after her. The father’s brother, Uncle Trash, comes to babysit the boys and ends up scamming the boys out of everything they own. The parents still haven not returned, and when Uncle Trash returns after a night of heavy drinking the boys notice he was beaten up and his truck is gone. Later in the story while the adults are out of the house, the two brothers caught one of the stray dogs and sprayed
The story follows three girls- Jeanette, the oldest in the pack, Claudette, the narrator and middle child, and the youngest, Mirabella- as they go through the various stages of becoming civilized people. Each girl is an example of the different reactions to being placed in an unfamiliar environment and retrained. Jeanette adapts quickly, becoming the first in the pack to assimilate to the new way of life. She accepts her education and rejects her previous life with few relapses. Claudette understands the education being presented to her but resists adapting fully, her hatred turning into apathy as she quietly accepts her fate. Mirabella either does not comprehend her education, or fully ignores it, as she continually breaks the rules and boundaries set around her, eventually resulting in her removal from the school.
Julie of the Wolves is a realistic fiction novel by Jean Craighead George. This novel is about a thirteen year old eskimo girl that is lost in the wilderness and is fighting to survive. She runs away because she was married off by her father to a boy named Daniel and she doesn’t want to marry him so she runs away and she tries to reach Point Hope in San Francisco. She communicates with wolves and finds her long lost father. Julie of the Wolves is about a girl named Miyax who never gives up.