St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolf

The word “Lycanthropic” means to transform, have the ability to transform, or to have already transformed into a nonhuman animal. Karen Russell’s short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, is about a group of girls who are sent to St. Lucy’s by their parents who happen to be werewolves, to become more like humans, and experience a lycanthropic culture shock in the process. However, not all girls can easily adjust to the standards St. Lucy’s calls for. The parents want their children to adapt to the human culture, so that the children don’t have to live the same life they, the parents, have to. However, the girls’ parents are werewolves, and this makes it so that they cannot provide the girls with the life style they wish they could have. To be able to understand the story and the “Lycanthropic Culture Shock” the girls go through, you have to understand where the girls come from, why they need to change, and why it is hard for some to change.

"St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” is a collection of short stories. The story that is in our book The Norton Introduction to Literature is the title story of the collection of short stories. In the title story a pack of girls that were raised by wolves are being brought to St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves were a group of nuns awaits them. The nuns want to reeducate the pack of wild girls to act like civilized girls. They have a five stage procedure that is supposed to follow the process of the girls being reeducated. But there is one girl, Mirabella, who just doesn’t wants to get reeducated. While every other girl starts adapting she stays behind and is either being ignored or scolded by all of the other girls. Towards

In the excerpt “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell the narrator speaks as a half wolf half human mind set. She discusses the improvements and difficulties of living in captivity after being free and wild their entire lives. There are three (3) main characters, Mirabella (youngest), Claudette who is the middle child of the three (3) sisters, and last but certainly not least, Jeanette. These girls are few of an entire “pack” of half human half wolf. The pack is referred to as a whole throughout the duration of this excerpt. They experience difficulty in the transition of the “wolf-identity” into more of a “human-identity”. This short story exemplifies how the difficulty of change after being exposed to ones “tradition” for so long differs for each “person” wolf or not.

Besides the Native American, the girls in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” also had to become civilized. Along with becoming civilized, the girls were becoming experienced by learning how to adapt to the new surroundings. (Complex) According to Karen Russell, “Our own scent had become foreign in this strange place.”(St. Lucy’s) The girls had to learn how to be comfortable with the new surroundings; while also having to fight back the natural instinct that was happening. As stated in “St. Lucy’s”; “Mouth shut, shoes on feet. Do not chew on your new penny loafers. Do not.” (St. Lucy’s) Aside from learning how to fight back the natural instinct, the girls were in training to attain how to verbalize. In brief statement, the “St. Lucy’s”

Whenever people change their behavior, views, and attitudes to meet the views or attitudes of another they are conforming. In the short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, by Karen Russell, conformity is shown in the eyes of these wolf-girls and the experiences they have to go through. Conforming to society for these wolf-girls happens in many different ways. Society forces many individuals to conform and fit in to the social hierarchy ultimately making them lose their true identity.

In the story, "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves," the author, Karen Russell, uses epigraphs throughout the stages of the story. An epigraph gives the reader a hint of what’s to come. This short story is about girls raised by wolves, who learn how to adapt to a new environment where they persevere. The epigraph in Stage 2 focuses on how hard it is to adjust to a new environment. It says that the girls must work even though they feel uncomfortable and confused. The relationship between the epigraph and the girls development in Stage 2 is accurate.

Throughout life, human kind has always wanted a guidebook: a guide to parenting, or, a guide to growing up. In the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, young girls raised by werewolves are sent with the nuns of St. Lucy’s to go to school and learn how to become a part of the human race. The Nuns use a handbook to guide the girls through Lycanthropic Culture Shock. In each stage, Claudette continuously progresses into becoming part of the human race.

We live in a general public where it is hard to conflict with the standard. Each of us are influenced to act a specific way, or look a specific route keeping in mind the end goal to be acknowledged. For example, youngsters may confront peer strain to do certain exercises that may not be all in all correct to them, but rather do it in any case, since they need to fit in. In any case, this weight of congruity isn't just present in reality, it can be found in writing also. The story "St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell delineates that with a specific end goal to adjust to society, people desert their benevolence and empathy and end up plainly egotistical and passionless.

How do you choose what to wear every morning before school? Many people will try to dress more or less like the people around them, and we teenagers like to fit in. But what would happen if someone showed up to school wearing a pink fur jumpsuit? What would you think about them? It’s in human nature to categorize people, based on their looks, actions, or beliefs, and forcing them to assimilate with everyone else. Throughout history, we have ostracized people and cultures, including the Native Americans in the US. The prejudice of society is further illustrated in “St.Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell through the werewolf girl Claudette’s struggles to become human.

In Karen Russell’s short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, the narrator, Claudette (one of the girls), talks about how her and her lycanthropic sisters are taken in by nuns to help them adapt to the human culture. By taking a close look at the story, readers can conclude that Claudette made the adaptation to the human culture. She faces many challenges and makes many great accomplishments along her journey of adapting to her new environment. In the story, the first three stages of adaptation are getting the girls used to the environment and teaching them the basics of humanity.

In the short story “St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” Karen Russell develops the girls immensely in Stage 2 and uses the epigraph to represent the change these girls are experiencing in their personalities. The students in St. Lucy's are girls who were born in the woods with wolves as parents. These girls know nothing but their wolf ways. So to be introduced to the humanely ways is strange and new concept for these girls. The girls consider themselves a pack at first, all being together and nobody to be individual. They are guided by the nuns and go through stages to become individual and a part of the human culture. There is an epigraph for the 2nd stage that explains what will be in store for the girls in that stage. The girls in stage 2 go through a lonesome, strange and even homesick feeling throughout. The epigraph assumes the refusal the girls will have towards the human ways, and the contents of the story furthers that idea.

The story of of “St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves” is about a girl and her sisters being raised to be civilized. These aren't normal girls, they were raised in the woods as wolves. They are then taken in under some nuns to be raised like regular humans. The topic of this essay is whether Claudette successfully integrated into human society. I'll explain about the house, the stage, and why I believe she was successful.

The short story St. Lucy Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is an establishment where they help and self-improvement in order to act in a human society. The epigraph states that the girls have to alter their behavior in order to adjust to the new culture. Claudette is having trouble adjusting to this lifestyle but she has been attempting to please others with all the discomforts it come with. Mirabella is another story she is not trying to tweak her ways of a wolf- girl life in order to be a better purebred girl but still is bewildered why her sister are acting like this. Jeanette is doing very well in her studies; her rank is the highest of the pack but is isolated from the rest of the pack. There is a part of the pack were they struggled and

“St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell is about girls who are raised by werewolves. The girls are then sent to a school to learn how to assimilate into the human culture, the process of becoming more humanized. The girls are guided through five stages, with help from the nuns at St Lucy’s. In Stages One and Two the girls do not show much progress towards the human culture. In Stage Three Claudette (the narrator) starts to separate herself from the pack.

The author uses epigraphs or “stages” from The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.” The epigraphs provide short explanations of how the nuns who run the school think the girls will grow at each of the stages of the girls’ education. Claudette, who is the narrator of the story, is one of the students at St. Lucy’s. Sometimes the epigraph, in Claudette’s case, is spot on when describing her development but, it significantly doesn’t match the way she is developing. In entirety, the epigraphs don't match Claudette’s development.