Kuhu Sinha
Essay 3: Personal Monsters
English 124: Reading and Writing Monsters
Q1) Do you think that there is too much personal and too little about the story?
Q2) How should I end this? An essay conclusion seems too formal and any more generalizing seems inappropriate, but right now it seems abrupt
“When in Rome”: The Tales of Adapting to New Worlds through St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
I think we may have taken the “New Year, New Me” slogan a little too literally.
It was the first week of January and I was starting a new school. I had been given a chance to reinvent myself, but first days are overrated and it is really hard to be happy about anything when the temperature is a good 30 degrees colder than you are used to
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“Remember to speak in English” just as Claudette would chant “mouth shut, shoes on feet”(in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, henceforth referred to as St. Lucy’s), because it is always those little details, that you didn’t actually realise would be different, that throw you off.
St Lucy’s is a story about a group of girls raised by werewolves who are domesticated in this halfway house by nuns. They are taught how to walk, talk and think by units in their curriculum. And even though it seems exaggerated, it hits the nail on the head in how it presents adapting to a new school or a new situation in general.
In the month I started going to the “pink castle”, other students also joined our grade. I take my time understanding the situation, seeing how my peers reacted to things and how different things were from my old school, so I could know how much I had to change. The three other students worked it out much faster. They made friends quicker, actually understood the shift in coursework and weren’t looked down upon as students needing extra attention. It was so tempting to give in to resentment, except they were really nice as well. I understand how the girls felt about Jeanette, the oldest sister. When you see yourself try time and again to do something and someone waltzes in and completes the task like it wasn’t actually worth the herculean effort you were putting into it, it is tough to not be
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The girls are shown a slide that reads, “Do you want to end up shunned by both species?” and it is a very close to how I felt. Both groups treated me like an outsider. I dreaded having to talk because people would try and place my accent. They still do and it is always something new. Sometimes I am Indian, sometimes British and sometimes American. But always apart from the group the person placing my accent is in. I avoid talking to my extended family in English because the second I do, they will start treating me like an outsider as
“Standard English was imposed on children of immigrant parents, then the children were separated from native English speakers, then the children were labeled “inferior” and “ignorant” (Hughes 70) because they could not speak Standard English. In addition to feeling inferior about their second language skills, these students also felt inadequate in regard to speaking their own mother tongues” (qtd in Kanae)
In Karen Russell’s short story St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Claudette, the main character, and other teenagers are being raised in a home where they learn how to adapt to human society. Some girls accomplish this task while other girls fail. The wolf girl Claudette truly is conformed and successfully adapts to human society. Claudette proves this by her relationship with her other sisters along with her relationship with herself.
I would recommend this story to anyone who enjoys stories centered on the maturation of youth during their teenage years. I felt that the climax of this story was not as exciting as it could have been. However, the storyline was very interesting as well as entertaining. I look forward to reading other stories by this author!
The essay starts off by talking about a common belief shared by many parents now about how students miss out on “a great deal by not being taught their family’s language”(Rodriguez 525). But the author states that this isn’t always true especially considering the children who are socially disadvantaged in any way, they more than likely consider their native tongue or the language used at home to be just that a private language that should only be used around or with the family, he also highlights how odd it was that his childhood classmates
This is juxtaposed with the various aspects of British culture imposed on Lucy’s home island. As a child, Lucy attended “Queen Victoria Girls’ School” (Page 18), a school...
Andrews, Bart and Watson, Thomas. LOVING LUCY: AN ILLUSTRATED TRIBUTE. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980.
Life at Lowood is extremely harsh, the pupils are very often given inedible meals, horrific clothing, and extremely cold conditions. It is through miss Temple and Helen that Jane receives her first taste of love and acceptance.
Well first one is the most obvious one. What did Mattie say to Mrs. Hale? This is a question that bothers me, I’m not usually overly curious, but what was so bad that Mrs. Hale can’t repeat it? This bothers me a bit more than it should. Another question I’d ask is why is there a deadly foreshadowing, but no one physically dies? I always preferred to be able to predict what happens, and do not appreciate a surprise plot twist. Why start the story with a narrator and end it with the same narrator? I’ll admit that this style shows the effects of Ethan’s choices, but why exactly an unnamed narrator? Where did Wharton get her inspiration for her characters? Simply a out of curiosity. With a single last question, why a
I read the book Lonesome Howl, which is a drama book and a love story. The book was about two main character whose names are Jake and Lucy. They lived with their family in two different farms, but in the same community besides a mountain covered in a big wicked forest where many rumors took place. The farmers around the place lost many sheep’s since a feral beast. It was a quite small community and a lot of tales was told about it to make it even more interesting. Lucy was 16 years old and lived with her strict father and a coward of mom who didn’t dare to stand up for her daughter when she were being mistreated and slapped around by her father. Lucy was a retired and quite teenager because of that. She had a younger brother whose name was Peter. Peter was being bullied in school and couldn’t read since the education of Peter was different compare too Lucy’s. She helped him in school and stood up for the mean bullies, although all she got in return was him talking bullshit about her with their cruel dad which resulted with her getting thrash.
“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, by Karen Russell is the story of a pack of human girls who were born of werewolves. They are taken from their families in the wilderness and brought to a St. Lucy’s. It was here that they were to be civilized. The process of civilization involved stripping them of their personal and cultural identities and retraining them in a manner that was acceptable to the human world. This is a close analogy to the Residential Schools of Cultural Assimilation for native Americans from 1887 to the early 1950’s.
In Maxine Hong Kingston’s autobiographical piece “Silence”, she describes her inability to speak English when she was in grade school. Kindergarten was the birthplace of her silence because she was a Chinese girl attending an American school. She was very embarrassed of her inability, and when moments came up where she had to speak, “self-disgust” filled her day because of that squeaky voice she possessed (422). Kingston notes that she never talked to anyone at school for her first year of silence, except for one or two other Chinese kids in her class. Maxine’s sister, who was even worse than she was, stayed almost completely silent for three years. Both went to the same school and were in the same second grade class because Maxine had flunked kindergarten.
From deals with the devil, corrupt churches, and the decaying body of a lifeless baby, Matthew Lewis’s The Monk is the paradigm of the gothic novel. The main setting of the novel is the church, a place of barbaric and inhumane practices. Deep in the dungeons are prison cells for deviating nuns who are starved and tormented by the head nuns. The Monk, title role of the novel, belongs to the main character who is perhaps the most malevolent and cruel. The novel is the ideal example of a gothic novel because it encompasses all the themes that typify the gothic novel. The main tenets of gothic literature include, terror, violence, threatening of a women’s virtue and women being in constant danger. This can be seen in the case of Antonia
The first day of my senior year was an emotional rollercoaster. Knowing that in just
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It was a gloomy Tuesday despite the fact that it was late August. I had missed the first day of school because I always hated the idea of introductions and forced social situations during those times. I hated my particular school ever since I started as a freshman the