We live in a society where it is difficult to go against the norm. Each of us are pressured to act a certain way, or look a certain way in order to be accepted. Such as teenagers may face peer pressure to do certain activities that may not be right to them, but do it anyways, because they want to fit in. But this burden of conformity is not only present in the real world, it can be found in literature as well. The story "St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell depicts that in order to conform to society, individuals abandon their selflessness and compassion and become selfish and apathetic.
In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls raised by wolves”, the main purpose, is that society attempts to conform an individual, and it’s the individual’s choice to either accept that or not. The main character Claudette, and her sisters are rounded up and taken to St. Lucy’s “to …show more content…
In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girl’s Raised by Wolves”, as the pack (excluding Mirabella) reached the point in which the nuns believed they were ready to see their brothers again, the nuns organized a ball. The girls were taught ‘The Sausalito’, and were tested on how well they danced at the ball. But Claudette freaked, and tried to motion for her sister Jeanette to help her. But Jeanette, as she was fully human now, showed no compassion for her sister. But then Mirabella jumped in, and intercepted Claudette’s cry for help. Claudette claimed that she “had never loved someone so much before or since, as she loved her littlest sister” (Russell 250). But due to peer pressure, and selfishness, Claudette blamed her sister for ruining the ball. And the rest of the pack joined her. After Mirabella was sent away, they didn’t even care. They had all finally adapted to being
In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls raised by wolves”, the main purpose, is that society attempts to conform an individual, and it’s the individual’s choice to either accept that or not. The main character Claudette, and her sisters are rounded up and taken to St. Lucy’s “to …show more content…
In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girl’s Raised by Wolves”, as the pack (excluding Mirabella) reached the point in which the nuns believed they were ready to see their brothers again, the nuns organized a ball. The girls were taught ‘The Sausalito’, and were tested on how well they danced at the ball. But Claudette freaked, and tried to motion for her sister Jeanette to help her. But Jeanette, as she was fully human now, showed no compassion for her sister. But then Mirabella jumped in, and intercepted Claudette’s cry for help. Claudette claimed that she “had never loved someone so much before or since, as she loved her littlest sister” (Russell 250). But due to peer pressure, and selfishness, Claudette blamed her sister for ruining the ball. And the rest of the pack joined her. After Mirabella was sent away, they didn’t even care. They had all finally adapted to being