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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.

Because the key to change is acceptance and the girls, including the main narrator, do not fully accept themselves in their new way of life, the transition from a wolf to a human life is never complete, leaving them in a place where they feel they do not belong. As readers, “the growing pains, the victory over culture shock, are so suggestive that we don't know where our sympathies lie. [We don’t know if we] should… admire civilized existence or primitive warfare” (Irving

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

Throughout the story however, It becomes apparent the narrator isn 't just one of those weird ' 'dog people ' ' (like myself). The humanized wolf is seen by some of the other people in the story exactly like she does. In the second paragraph of the story she mentions this, an old man named Grady - who lives next to a community garden and Bessie, a homeless woman who lives out of a shopping cart are also acquainted with the wolf. It seems to me that the narrator isn 't trying to teach us good morals for animal equality with the tale. She is trying to get another point across with the constant presence of the being throughout the story, and the highlighting of the certain

The TLC documentary Wild Child; the Story of Feral Children is a documentary that tells the few of many stories of children that have turned to a feral lifestyle due to parental negligence. Feral, meaning undomesticated, is the used term to describe these children because of the actions they exhibit. The accounts in this documentary range from a young girl who “was raised with the wolves” per say, but instead with her dog, to a little boy who was abandoned in a Ukrainian loft and provided the town strays with food and shelter in return for protection from them and other strays. In some of the cases detailed in this video, these children were far too old by the time they were discovered and missed an extremely crucial time frame in which

A major influence on Alice's identity was when she was a young child and her grandmother would tell her stories about events that occurred in Cambodia. In Alice's teenage years, her beloved grandmother has a stroke, developed disabilities and eventually had passed away. It is around this time where serious psychological problems occur for Alice. This almost forces her into a mental state in which she knows she does not fit in with the Australian culture. She believed she had to do everything she could to change that otherwise Alice knew she would break down mentally. Alice was forced to attempt to fit the social standards of Australia.

Issues concerning her size, identity, and her social exchanges with both Wonderland and its creatures spur and characterize Alice’s development towards becoming a young woman.

In the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” Karen Russell discusses how girls develop and how nuns guided them using the Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock. The book helped them teach the girls and guide them throughout the stages. Karen Russell explains how the girls developed in the stages. Russell specifically talks about how the narrator, Claudette has developed, which leads into being accepted into the human culture. After arriving at “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” Claudette has not fully developed from the handbook.

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.

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in England during the year 1865. This was a time where typical Victorian children’s novels and books adhered to an informal but omnipresent set of themes characteristic of their life experiences. Chief among these themes were humility, devotion, the ability to be on time and punctual, and to promote cleanliness in all aspects of life. In short, literature, especially those for children, were designed to teach little girls how to be proper Victorian little girls, holding those themes and morals as priority for real world opportunities and experiences. Lewis Carroll’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was quite opposed to this literary standard for the time.

Alice being the ripe age of seven, has to determine where she’s going to go from there, internalizing her discussions. Through her decisions, Alice must contemplate her identity, through the use of Wonderlands quirky characters. While Alice can use her identity and choses to get herself out of Wonderland using her own perception, the same does not go for Mowgli. Mowgli must leave as he feels he is stuck in a field, constantly looking back at his wolf life to his human life. Both the characters are able to navigate their way through situations using their own identity and knowledge of aw, through interactions, but must always decipher between nature and

The traditional male qualities are overtaken by female characters such as the Queen of Hearts and the Duchess. Also, a male character such as the King of Hearts expresses the traditional female qualities. However, throughout the story, Alice meets characters who support their traditional gender roles such as the White Rabbit and the Pigeon. All in all, Alice learns that although some characters such as the Duchess have reversed cultural gender roles, she still expressed her maternal instinct, prompting Alice to discover the ancient feminine in

But what if we were completely untouched by society, isolated from all forms of humanity? Without other people to interact with and learn from, babies would grow to be nothing more than a wild animal. Every human being is born with the potential to develop into an intelligent, social creature, but without human influence a person can never develop into what we consider to be a member of human society. One can clearly see this through the reports of feral children. There has been only a few cases reported and very few studied. In cases from the past feral children are reported as wild children who could not speak or communicate in anyway. These children bit, scratched, growled, and walked on all fours. In addition to this primal behavior, they ate grass, ravenously tared apart small animals and devoured the raw meat. The most shocking quality of the children was their apparent lack of sensitivity to pain or cold. (Henslin 66-7) The most famous case of a feral child was “The wild boy of Aveyron” in 1798. At first this case would have been written off as just another folk tale, but a French scientist, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, conducted immense studies of the

In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the main character, Alice, undergoes quite a change. During the time the novel was published, parts of the world were in the victorian era. The Queen at the time was Queen Victoria, in which the era was named after. During this era, knowledge, class and reason were greatly valued, and stressed. This time period ended in the year of Queen Victoria’s death. Throughout the novel, there are many ways that show how Alice begins to understand the world in adult terms, matures, and grows.

'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll seems a first a simple fairy tale, but in fact its meaning is a lot more profound. This novel criticizes the way children were brought up during the Victorian era. Carroll presents the readers with the complications these offspring must endure in order to develop their own personalities/egos, as they become adults. For Alice, Wonderland appears to be the perfect place to start this learning adventure. A way to understand her story is by compering it to the world as if being upside-down. Nothing in Wonderland seems to be they way it’s supposed to. The first lesson, Alice must learn in this peculiar journey through Wonderland is to achieve separation from the world around her and to stop identifying herself through others, in order to discover who she