Host Culture Sparknotes

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In Stage 3 the epigraph describes the students are choosing to reject the host culture and choosing to keep their wolf identification because they believe that wolf culture is far superior to human culture. The epigraph says that it is “common” that during this stage the students “reject the host culture” and “wonder how the people can live like they do” (p. 244). Students “may feel that their own culture’s lifestyle and customs are far superior to those of the host country” (p. 244). The students “withdraw into themselves” because they think wolf culture is more superior to the human culture (p. 244) The pack’s interactions with the purebred girls demonstrates that the wolf girls feel superior to them because of the comments they make which criticize that the purebred girls appear weak and silly with “frilly-duvet names like felicity and Beulah” (p. 245) and their “pert, bunny noses; and terrified smiles”(p. 245). Lavash pants “These girls are sure dumb” because they were losing …show more content…

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

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