Claudette Character Development

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The Struggle to Develop

Stage #1
The Introduction sentence: what was going on in stage 1, Claudette was not adapted to the human lifestyle at st.Lucy's. For example “Sister Josephine tasted like sweat and freckles. Sister Josephine smelled easy to kill.” Regular people don’t make inferences like that and base it off of smelling and the description they gave her was a little unhuman like: For example “We tore through the austere rooms, overturning dresser drawers, pawing through the neat piles of the Stage 3 girls’ starched underwear.” As you can see Claudette has not adapted to being human.

Stage #2
The Introduction sentence: what was going on in stage 2, Claudette is beginning to adapt to becoming a human like the way she is supposed to
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“I had rubbed a pumpkin muffin all over my body earlier.”
This means Claudette still has some animal inside her because humans don’t normally rub pumpkin muffin all over their body. As you can see Claudette still hasn't become fully adapted to human because she still does stuff that humans wouldn't do only animals.

Stage #5
Introduction sentence: In stage 5, “I couldn't remember how to find my way home¨ This means that Claudette is becoming human because wolves can always smell their way home. ¨i was wearing my best dress¨. This means that Claudette is becoming human because wolves do not wear clothes. Claudette is not a wolf anymore because she is eating pickles. We know that Claudette is also walking on two feet because the quote says: ¨i had to duck my head to enter¨. The cave opening is too small because Claudette used to walk on 4 legs, but now she uses 2 feet. As you can see it trying to say that Claudette became fully adapted to

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