Children At St. Lucy's Summary

In Lynda Barry's essay “The Sanctuary of School” Barry gives her own personal feelings and experiences about the school system. She points out the fact that when times are “lean” the first things the government eliminates from the school systems is the art, music. and other creative programs. In her essay she gives her readers insight on her childhood, explaining how going to school was her get-away from her financially and emotionally unstable home. Barry points out how she and her brother weren’t noticed by their family while at home. For example, at the age of seven Barry sneaks out of the house while it was still dark because she feels a sudden urgency to get to school; when she gets close, she feels a sense of peace come over her. When

The second epigraph of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised By Wolves refers to a “Stage 2” from the Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock. According to the text, in this stage, the wolf-girl pack will realize that they are required to make an effort to adapt to their new environment and begin the stressful process of integrating themselves into the host culture. During this period, the epigraph explains, students may feel frustrated, depressed, confused, out-of place, or somewhat insecure, reminiscing about their old home and ways of life. Stage 2 marks an important phase in the development of the pack as a character, and of the wolf-girls as individuals.

This shines light upon her Native American roots and how it can be an inspiration for her Century Quilt, each square representing her family’s racial diversity and mixed roots. It is quite difficult to learn of all the harsh animosity they were enduring, such as Meema and her yellow sisters whose “grandfather’s white family nodding at them when they met” (24-27). The hostility is clear as the white relatives only register their presence; no “hello” or warm embrace as if they didn’t acknowledge them as true family. However, with descriptive imagery, the speaker’s sense of pride for having the best of both worlds is still present as she understands Meema’s past experiences and embraces her family’s complexity wholeheartedly; animosity and all.

Lucy was living a life situated around a different set of nurture characteristics when compared to other children. At the age of 7, she was living in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City along with her parents. There was no mention as to whether she had siblings. The Upper East Side of New York is considered to be affluent and home to many wealthy people. She

While the children were learning the new ways, the adults were as well. Oona’s father had gone to a lumber camp to work. He went to try and earn enough money to build the kinds of houses that the new settlers had already built for themselves. The Native woman began to learn the household needs, and the English language as well. They made clothes similar to the new settlers, and even friended many of them. The way of life that they were once used to was becoming just a speck in their memories. As the generation passes, Oona always remembered to tell the children of how life used to be, and the traditions that were practiced. She recognized that the children would bring the culture with them in the generations to come, but it would never be as traditional as it once was.

Both texts and their authors talk about the memories assiciated with the objects that they had or meaned something to them. One of the examples of an object's memory was, "a piano brought down from syracuse, the one my mother played as a girl. This shows how the narrator associates the piano with the memory of their mother playing it as a child. An example of a memeory from passage 2 is, "tin box, oh how you remind me of the swell of other seas, the roar of

(Jones) Also, as her mother turns away and leaves her in the care of the teacher, the first thing she states is that she can see where her mother has “darned one of her socks the night before.” (Jones) Instead of providing any commentary on her ascension to independency from her mother, the first thing she notes is the condition of her mother’s sock, showing her embarrassment toward her.

Whether one would like to admit it or not, change is a difficult and not to mention uncomfortable experience which we all must endure at one point in our lives. A concept that everyone must understand is that change does not occur immediately, for it happens overtime. It is necessary for time to pass in order for a change to occur, be it days, weeks, months, or even years. The main character, who is also the narrator of “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, realizing that “things felt less foreign in the dark” (Russell 225), knows that she will be subject to change very soon. The author makes it evident to readers that the narrator is in a brand new environment as the story begins. This strange short story about girls raised by

Martin is an average teen that lives with his parents and his younger sister Cheryl when his life is interrupted when his Lakota Grandpa comes to visit. Grandpa tells the story of his culture and life as an Indian, but Martin was afraid that his grandfather might not live up to the expectations he implemented into the minds of his friends. Sadly his grandfather was sick and tired, so he gave Martin the medicine bag as a passing gift to remember his family’s culture. In the end, Martin visited the Iowa sanctuary as a way to commemorate his grandfather and the medicine bag. The hardships of judging your family, culture and those around you are difficult to do unless experience, the description, and events experience by Martin explain these events and the meaning of the discovery changed him for the better. In the story, “The Medicine Bag”, the remarkable events during Grandpa’s visit enlightened Martin of the importance of family culture and the acceptance of others.

Traditions and old teachings are essential to Native American culture; however growing up in the modern west creates a distance and ignorance about one’s identity. In the beginning, the narrator is in the hospital while as his father lies on his death bed, when he than encounters fellow Native Americans. One of these men talks about an elderly Indian Scholar who paradoxically discussed identity, “She had taken nostalgia as her false idol-her thin blanket-and it was murdering her” (6). The nostalgia represents the old Native American ways. The woman can’t seem to let go of the past, which in turn creates confusion for the man to why she can’t let it go because she was lecturing “…separate indigenous literary identity which was ironic considering that she was speaking English in a room full of white professors”(6). The man’s ignorance with the elderly woman’s message creates a further cultural identity struggle. Once more in the hospital, the narrator talks to another Native American man who similarly feels a divide with his culture. “The Indian world is filled with charlatan, men and women who pretend…”

Lisa often gets frustrated when trying to play with other children. She takes toys from their hands and even hits children with the toys.

So one of the things that our family would love to do was sit by the fireplace drink hot chocolate and listen to my dad tell stories. In a sense I can completely relate the type of lifestyle that this native tribe would live because we would do something very similar not drink beer but replace it with hot chocolate for the kids and whatever the parents want to drink, and tell stories by the fire because it was to cold and a rainy day outside. Another thing that makes the thing that I used to do as a kid was when we did do these nights where we would sit by the fire we would listen to stories that my dad would tell us so for my younger brother and I we would be listening to stories from our elder. Sometimes the stories that my father would tell use would be to complicated for us at such a young age so we would ask a lot of questions throughout the stories just like the native tribes elders would do to Laura because to them it is something completely out of there knowing so they need better explanation. So I have stories from my past that I have learned from my elder which allows me to relate to this passage very well in that sense.

In the beginning half of David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children, the theme of a mercy is crucial and is what ultimately drives some characters to fail. Failure is a universal human imperfection, which one cannot control or escape. In Richards’ Mercy Among the Children Sydney Henderson exhibit the idea of true human failure with respect to the theme of mercy. Sydney Henderson receives mercy from very few members of his town because of the terrible and otherwise orthodox failures of his father before him. Sydney is often times depicted enduring the wrath and cruelty brought on by men like Mathew Pit, Connie Devlin and Constable Morris, who allow him no mercy and accuse him of deceitful acts and scheming plots. "I guess you have been let down by me - I am not very good at the world - in

There are many statues and monuments around the world but none are as strange, disturbing, and as savage as the Kindlifresser. Located in Bern Switzerland the Kindlifresser or “Child Eater” is a fountain that stands tall in the middle of Bern. Atop the fountain stands an ogre type man with a young child in his mouth and more in his sack. The fountain was made in 1545 by a man named Hans Gieng. The statues original name Kindlifresser that directly translates into “The Fountain of the Eater of Little Children.” Yet no one knows exactly why this statue was made. There are many theories about this statues meanings and why it was built. The most common theory is that the statue was a warning to the Jewish community that could be found in Bern.

In “The School Children,” Louise Gluck expresses her somber perception of sending children to school, suggesting that mothers feel as though their children are taken away, as if by death, when they go to school. She uses poetic devices such as enjambment, morbid imagery and extended metaphors to convey the significance of the experience. Gluck explores the idea of sacrifice through enjambment, when the children are at school and she speaks about “the nails/on which the children hang/ their overcoats” (Gluck 8-10). Although the entire sentence is innocent sounding, when reading the poem, the sudden line break brings to mind the image of hanging children, either by ropes, or more probably, through crucifixion, as hinted at by the inclusion of