Analysis of Karen Russell

St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell is a story about how a house of nun’s take in a pack of girls that were raised by werewolves. The nun’s have a difficult time teaching the group of girls to act like humans. They have such a hard time with it because the girls have no experience with humans because they lived their entire lives acting and living like wolves. Modern day stories about the supernatural world always portray the werewolves as being far more foreign than even vampires and witches, history and Russells story can prove why it is this way. Karen Russell demonstrates how werewolves are foreign through her story because she shows how the girls raised by wolves have a difficult time fitting

Both “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolfs,” written by Karen Russell, and “ A Good Man is Hard to Find,” by Flannery O’Connor, share two dramatic characters that, even though they aren’t the main characters, play very important roles in the development of the story. In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolfs,” we have Mirabella who, though she is not the main character, helps keep the reader in check with what the girls once were with her independent ways of going against the grain. In “A Good Man in Hard to Find” we have the Grandmother who is a selfish woman and pessimistic who has no respect from her family. Both Mirabella and the Grandmother’s erroneous and ill-mannered actions prove to separate them from their families, which

Claudette changed during the transition from stage 1 of Lycanthropic Culture Shock through stage 5. In stage 1 Claudette was almost fully a wolf. At St. Lucy’s over time she changed fully into a human. Claudette was one of the more advanced girls in her pack during her time at St. Lucy’s. Claudette assimilated well into the human culture by the end of the story.

Throughout stage 2 Claudette and the others began to feel emotions that they have never felt before, they were uncomfortable. “The whole pack was irritated, bewildered, and depressed. We were uncomfortable and between languages. We had never wanted to run away so badly in our lives.” (p.230) They wanted to run away because they hated it so much, but they knew they couldn't because it would a betrayal of their parents. “Could we betray our parents by going back to them?” (p.231) Claudette experiences this lavish-dog affection awakened by being around other humans, they only wanted to please and be seen in good light by those higher up than them. “Being around human had awakened a lavish-dog affection in us. An abasing, belly-to-the-ground desire to please. As soon as we realized that someone higher up in the food chain was watching us, we only wanted to be pleasing in their sight.” (p.232) These emotions and mental ecstasy made Claudette want to adapt rather than being forced to as in stage 1 and beginning of stage 2. Claudette soon experienced her first feelings of hatred and jealousy most sighted at Jeanette and Mirabella. “The pack hated Jeanette, but we hated Mirabelle even more. Jeanette, she hated because she was adapting the most quickly out of all of them and Claudette was jealous of her. Claudette hated Mirabella for the exact opposite reason, Mirabella wouldn't even try to

Kate Kimball is an award-winning fiction author who has worked hard to be in the position she is in now. Despite currently struggling with her health, she has continued to peruse her English PhD in Creative Writing here at Florida State University. Born in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah Kimball is surprised to find herself over 2,000 miles away now studying in the sunshine state. FSU offers one of the top creative writing programs that currently is ranked top 5 in the nation according to The Atlantic Monthly. Kimball was excited to be accepted into the accredited program after earning her bachelor’s from the University of Utah and masters at Virginia Tech. Kimball has always loved writing and says, “Creative writing allows you to write about

Belonging to a certain group is a natural experience in the lives of individuals. Groups are categorizable by a variety of options but often expel a trait that epitomizes each individual within the group such as rank, societal merit, or simply just appearance. Behaviorism gratifies purpose within cohort mentality among those in an association due to the psychological commonalities that bring these groups together. When it comes to an individual's development within a certain group, joint mentality helps create a safe environment but often times supports ideologies of self empowerment. Anthropologist Karen Ho composes the analysis of students whom graduate Ivy League universities and enter into financial professions, in her essay “Biographies

The book is told from Jeannette’s point of view; Jeannette is an adventurous child with high hopes. Her father Rex Walls is an alcoholic who would distract the kids from when they had to move house to house,

Have you ever thought that three completely different stories might have something in common? It might seem unlikely, but now you can change what you previously thought! The short stories Contents of a Dead Man’s Pockets by Jack Finney, The Leap by Louise Erdrich, and The Trip by Laila Lalami, all have their similarities and differences on several aspects. This can be demonstrated through the topics of setting, conflict, characters, and theme. These topics help make up the plot of each story. No story is the same, but they can have similar messages or themes meant for the audience. Some can argue that these three short stories are completely different, but other individuals differ. These main elements from each story can be both, depending on one’s point of view.

Compare and Contrast the ways in which modern authors have re-imagined traditional narratives for their own purposes.

Literary elements take up substantial fragments in stories today. In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”, there is a young boy named Jem Finch and throughout the story, you start to realise that he’s growing up, not physically, but mentally, we call that ‘the coming of age’. Jem’s coming of age experience is developed at Mrs.Dubose’s (a bad tempered old lady) house through conflict, irony, and symbol.

Claudette and her pack are trying to adapt to society's correct way of living as humans, but have many struggles conforming. In

To build “the gate of difference”, Russell makes Claudette resistant to the culture change. This resistance allows for growth and conflict. Readers can see the inner conflict Claudette faces through the

Different readers could interpret Russell Baker’s Growing Up in many ways. The book gives insight into his life, from his humble childhood to his successful adulthood. By describing the events in his life, he is also paying tribute to the important women who shaped him. These women were his Mother, Grandmother, and wife. All three were vital influences on him, and made him who he is in the present day. My interpretation focuses on those women more than any other factor in Russell’s life, most importantly, his mother Lucy Elizabeth.

Short stories can share themes, motifs, symbols, consequences, and plot lines, even if there is never any intention to share a common element between the stories. The stories can be written close together or in different decades and still be linked to the one another. They can also be worlds apart with different meanings in the end, but that does not stop them from having similar ideas expressed within them. The following three stories, “Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by DH Lawrence, and “The Lady in the Looking Glass” by Virginia Woolf, are three totally different stories that share common threads that make them the stories that they are.

Thesis statement: Although Angela Carter’s the company of wolves contains noticeable resemblances with its older variant, Charles Perrault’s little red riding hood, Carter prefers to reveal the relationship dynamics between men and women through subverting the traditional tale of a young naive girl who is tricked by the cunning big bad wolf. Instead, presenting the heroine’s true ambition, in which she wants to governor her own incarceration into damnation. In several instances of metaphors, foreshadowing, and ironic devices, she is revealed to be antagonist rather than the protagonist of Carter’s story, therefore reshaping the classical notion of little red riding hood into a feminist retelling of a girl attempting to gain control of their own narrative.