Summary Of Julie Of The Wolves

In Karen Russell's short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, a pack of wolf-girls are sent to a church to transform them into human-girls. As they journey through their transformation there is a guide called, The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock that helps the nuns running St. Lucy’s. The book describes the transformation in stages to help determine the girls’ place as a human. Russell uses the stages as an epigraph to start a new part of the girls’ journey. In stage one, the girls first arrive at St. Lucy’s to begin their transformation.

            For years, wolves have been falsely accused for crimes in stories, myths, and life. In Never Cry Wolf, author Farley Mowat demonstrates how even though wolves are mistakenly stereotyped as evil; people don’t know anything without evidence. Farley Mowat takes a trip to Churchill, Canada, to study Arctic wolves for the Canadian Wildlife Service. He is studying the Arctic wolves because he needs to prove that the wolves are killing all the migrating caribou. During the entire book, he witnesses and experiences, new journeys about wolves and Eskimos, throughout his time in the tundra. Mowat learns over time, how wolves are mischaracterized from who they

In the passage from the novel Kiss of the Fur Queen, the author Tomson Highway presents the main character, Okimasis’, thrilling experience in a tasteful manner. The author constantly shifts the angles and tone of the passage, in a way that has a profound effect on the reader. Highway dramatizes Okimasis’ physical and emotional journey through the tundra, which is portrayed through sensory imagery, detailed descriptions, comparisons and intense diction.

In Tomson Highway’s novel Kiss of the Fur Queen the opening passage transports the reader to the harsh, cold, and intense struggle of the caribou hunter, Abraham Okimasis during a championship husky sled race. Any race often proves to be physically and mentally exhausting for a person. Highway utilizes a fantastic variety of literary devices to dramatize Okimasis’ physical and emotional experience through his last leg of the race by creating a powerfully intense atmosphere through the effective use of descriptive imagery, passionate diction, repetition of words, and a tone of desperation.

Upon first reading “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” it might seem like an imaginative fantasy and nothing else. The story focuses on the daughters of a pack of werewolves, and it takes place in a world where the werewolves and their daughters are nothing out of the ordinary. But upon closer examination, this is a story rooted in reality. This inventive tale parallels several real world phenomena. Karen Russell uses allegory in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” to objectify western society’s views of people outside of that society and of outsiders in general, and compare them to the views that people have of wild animals.

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

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.

The article, “The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack,” by Ian Adams describes the horrific and forlorn lives that many Indigenous children faced in residential schools. However, this story focuses on the lonely young boy, Charlie Wenjack, who took his last breath in the attempt to escape the hatred towards his culture and find his father. As Adams stated, “This, then, is the story of how a little boy met a terrible and lonely death, of the handful of people who became involved, and of a town that hardly noticed”(Adams, 1967). Charlie grew to be empty and rejected, longing for the love of his father. He devised a plan to run away from school with his two friends: Ralph and Jackie MacDonald. Wenjack was on a mission to travel the 400 miles on foot

What do you think of wolves? Do you think they’re blood-thirsty killers, or do you think they are rather friendly animals? In the book, Never Cry Wolf, (1963) the author, Farley Mowat, writes about his excursion to the sub arctic Barren Lands of Canada to study how wolves act and how the community is being affected by the wolves. The people of Churchill lead Mowat to believe the wolves are something that they aren’t, which is a blood-thirsty killer. Mowat then uses the rhetorical strategy Pathos throughout the book to show you how he personifies the wolves and how fear is all in our minds.

-The central story is of Niska's early adolescence. It is the winter during which she enters puberty. Her Oji-Cree Anishnabe clan of roughly 30 people still live near Hudson's Bay, in the wilderness. The winter is a harsh one, with few animals to trap and eat. They are reluctantly forced to consume a young hibernating bear, who they regard as a spiritual brother (38). Niska's father, a medicine man and a spiritual leader of the clan, argues that they have no choice but to eat or starve (37). Nothing it should be added, is to be wasted.

‘The Company of Wolves’ is a twisted and raw reinvention of ‘Little Red Ridding Hood’ while symbolizing female sexuality and embracing it. The wolves in the story have been described by the author as skin and bones, “so little flesh on them that you could count the starveling ribs”. Their food source has been taken away by

A little town of Churchill, wolves creep in the shadows to find food. The caribou are scarce, and the wolves need to find food to eat. In the book around the time of 1963, Never Cry Wolf a scientist named Farley Mowat goes to the arctic to go and study wolves. There are very few caribou and Mowat wants to see what the wolves are eating and doing to stay alive. Many people of the town of Churchill believe that wolves are blood thirsty killers but after a long time of being with the wolves, Mowat figures out that is just not the case. Mowat uses emotion(pathos), humor and irony throughout the book.

By the time the cubs were ready to hunt, she had only just mastered the ability to move gracefully on all fours and was by no means silent. Her communication was awkward as well. The babblings and cooings she arrived with had left within a few months, but her barks and howls lacked the inflection and urgency of the others in the pack. By the time the second litter came around, she had found an accepted place within the pack: Not the Omega, too many of them still regarded her as a pup for that, but not truly treated like a pup either - she knew too much, tried too hard. In all honestly, they didn’t know what to do with her, this child who was not a part of them but who was tolerated. She participated in hunts (so she thought) and in return could eat with the Omega, her hands pulling at the flesh so as not to get too close. When the fifth litter was born, The Alpha and the pack went hunting. In a tragic turn of events, the Alpha was injured and died shortly afterwards. They dragged the carcass back towards the den, leaving her behind. Disjointed howls filled the air as they mourned his death, which turned into a battle for who would be the next Alpha. The girl cared little for who would be in charge; she clung to the dead wolfs neck, howling and crying, having lost her second father. An old song hummed through her lips without a thought, bringing comfort. A few members of the

A single person can influence your life and alter it permanently, either in a good way or a bad way. Wolf Hollow, by Lauren Wolk, is about the story of a twelve year old girl, Anabelle McBride, living on a farm with her family during World War II in the year 1943. She lived a regular life, attending school, having to deal with her two little brothers, and always wondering about the mysterious war veteran with guns slung over his shoulder, Toby. This was all until a new girl arrived in their town, whose name was Betty Glengarry. She was sent there to live with her grandparents because she was “incorrigible,” and caused trouble in her old town. The appearance of this girl precedes a plethora trouble in everyone’s lives. She threatens

At the age of fourteen, the nameless protagonist meets Old Chief Mshlanga on a walk with her dogs, a native tribal leader who used to own the whole area. The chief's pride and respect make the girl gingerly change her opinion of natives and reconsider her prejudiced vision and idea. As a result, she begins to be more pleasant towards the natives she encounters.