Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves were raised in an environment that dictated their futures. To them, “things felt less foreign in the dark.” (Russell 237) However, at St. Lucy’s, they were trying to stifle their desire to revert back to their wolf behavior. Claudette kept repeating to herself “[m]outh shut, shoes on feet” because she wanted to conform to the nuns’ teachings (240). During Stage 2 of their teachings, when Mirabella was not deserting her wolfish ways and was still travelling on all fours, the girls “could barely believe it… the shame of it, that [they] used to locomote like that.” (241) However, the wolf girls could not understand the purebred human girls they met. Claudette wondered what it would be like to be “always homesick for a dimly sensed forest, the trees you’ve never seen.”
Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves were raised in an environment that dictated their futures. To them, “things felt less foreign in the dark.” (Russell 237) However, at St. Lucy’s, they were trying to stifle their desire to revert back to their wolf behavior. Claudette kept repeating to herself “[m]outh shut, shoes on feet” because she wanted to conform to the nuns’ teachings (240). During Stage 2 of their teachings, when Mirabella was not deserting her wolfish ways and was still travelling on all fours, the girls “could barely believe it… the shame of it, that [they] used to locomote like that.” (241) However, the wolf girls could not understand the purebred human girls they met. Claudette wondered what it would be like to be “always homesick for a dimly sensed forest, the trees you’ve never seen.”