St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves By Russell Karen

Describe Jeannette’s childhood, specifically her socialization or the process by which she acquired family values, information about social expectations, and survival strategies.

Karen Russell’s St Lucy’s Home for Girl Raised by Wolves is about a pack of wolf girls that are taught how to act civilized at St Lucy’s. Over the course of the story, there are three main wolf girls, Claudette, Jeanette, and Mirabella. At St Lucy’s the girls go through five stages. Some of the girls will either be ahead, stay at the same pace as, or be behind the program. The epigraph for Stage One suggests that the girls will have a new-found curiosity and excitement. It also suggests that they will enjoy the new environment that they’re placed in.

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.

In every good initiation story the protagonist experiences a range of changes. In Karen Russell 's story “St. Lucy 's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, the protagonist Claudette is quickly submersed in a new world. She and her pack go from living with their lycanthrope parents in the woods, to being raised by nuns and taught to act human. She has to learn a whole new way to exist. She learns what to do, how to think, and how to become an individual. Karen Russell effectively shapes Claudette as a dynamic character. Throughout the story Claudette experiences changes in her personality and behaviors, producing a stark contrast in the end.

The change of appearance and dress of the girls in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” also reflects the idea of fitting in. At the beginning of the story, the girls are extremely unkempt and uncouth: “We had terrible posture… we went knuckling along the wooden floor on the calloused pads of our fists, baring row after row of tiny wood-rotted teeth.” (Russell 242). By the end of their training to become more civilized humans, they transform a great deal. No longer do they walk on the floor using their fists, for now they use only their two feet while standing up straight. The girls are also now easier on the eyes of civilized human beings: “The nuns swept our hair back into high, bouffant hairstyles. This made us look more girlish and less inclined to eat people… I

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Claudette was successfully integrated into society. In stage one, the girls started out rough, hardly knowing anything, they were confused and wild. They were constantly digging, running and absolutely going insane. Everything was new for Claudette, and everyone was hyperactive.

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