St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolf Summary

St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolf Summary

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. In Stage One, Claudette's relation to the epigraph is that she explores her new environment. She stated, "Everything was new, exciting, and interesting" (Russell, 238). She adapts to human society in this stage by wearing human clothes and eating cupcakes. In the animal kingdom, cupcakes are not considered animal food; they are more of a human food. Claudette has not ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Once Claudette is in the spotlight, she forgets everything she learned at St. Lucy's. She states, "...a howl clawing its way up my throat" (Russell, 250). Claudette adapts to human culture in this stage by ignoring Jeanette, she only worries about herself, refuses to thank Mirabella to get approval from the nuns, she does not want to face Mirabella, she looks like a human at the dance, and she tries to mask her feral scent by rubbing a pumpkin muffin all over her body. In the animal kingdom, members of the pack usually do not ignore each other, they look out for each other, they do not look human, and they do not try to mask their scent. Claudette has not adapted to human culture in this stage because she had not learned party vocabulary, she gets nervous when she sees Kyle, she flattens her ears, she narrows her eyes, she forgets everything she has learned once she is under the spotlight, and she pumps instead of dancing the Sausalito. Humans do not flatten their

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