St Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Summary

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“St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” Girls raised by wolves by Karen Russell, is about young girls raised by werewolves developing into human girls. Claudette is the main character who thinks she is in between Jeanette as the most successful girl to develop to human identity and Mirabella as the furthest. Culture shock that Claudette is experiencing is when she was forced to go to St Lucy to change her own culture to a more superior culture. Claudette showed her character developing into human identity. She had some moments where she was not developing but at the end she can change between two culture’s easily. In this short story Claudette will show what made her develop to human identity in relation to the five stages of Lycanthropic …show more content…

She ate her first human cupcake from the deacon who led Claudette and the girls through the woods. “The deacon handed out some stale cupcakes and said a quick prayer.” (Russell. 237). Claudette have many things that they are not adapting into human, because just like in the epigraph, it is normal that the girls including Claudette are too excited to see new things in the new environment. “Our pack was all hair and snarl and floor-thumping joy.” (Russell. 237). Claudette’s non-developing process is when she and the girls had their noses twinge when smelling human odour. “Our noses ached beneath as invisible assault. Everything was smudged with human odour.” (Russell. 238). Another example is when Claudette is running around when the nuns are trying to put nametag on here. “The rest of the pack ran in a loose, uncertain circle, torn between our instinct to help her and our new fear.” (Russell. …show more content…

Claudette had been developing more in this stage. When she met the purebred girls, she learned how to play checkers from them. “The purebred girls played with us.” (Russell. 245). She also learned how to ride her bicycle for her first time because she wanted to go on chaperoned trip into town. “We’d ride the bicycles uphill, a sanctioned pumping, a grim-faced nun pedalling behind each one of us.” (Russell. 246). Claudette wasn’t ready to dance with her own brothers which causes her to think it was much more simpler in the wood as a wolf identity. “They knew we weren’t ready to talk to them. Things had been so much simpler in the wood.” (Russell

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