Have you ever struggled with your identity? Well, a young lycanthropic girl named Claudette in the short story “ St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves “ written by Karen Russell struggled between being a wolf girl versus becoming a normal human girl. This internal conflict sent the story spiraling out of control when the nuns took the girls through the Culture Shock. The Culture Shock was a method of practice the nuns used to transform the girls from full lycanthropic to a 100% homo sapient. During the five stages of this shock, the girls will learn how to do this and some will stumble and some will rise above all. However, Claudette does not know what to do or what she whether to be human or wolf.
Stage 1
Claudette and the pack are introduced to their new temporary home and school. This is where the pack will learn get past there lycanthropic nature and become human girls. However, it is hard for them to steer away from a behavior they are all so familiar with. They walk into a room that is “ windowless and odourless” and to make it more like home the girls start to spray all over the place as the story states “We remied this by jumping bunk to bunk spraying exuberant yellow streams “. This was a sign that they still were marking territory and that they had a long way until full recovery of their human nature. …show more content…
While, Claudette wants to be equally be accepted by both species. She repeatedly reminds her self during the drills to have her mouth shut and shoes on feet no slouching. She uses this as an attempt to stay invisible but this is hard going into stages 3 and 4.
Stages 3,4,and
Stage 1
Claudette and the pack are introduced to their new temporary home and school. This is where the pack will learn get past there lycanthropic nature and become human girls. However, it is hard for them to steer away from a behavior they are all so familiar with. They walk into a room that is “ windowless and odourless” and to make it more like home the girls start to spray all over the place as the story states “We remied this by jumping bunk to bunk spraying exuberant yellow streams “. This was a sign that they still were marking territory and that they had a long way until full recovery of their human nature. …show more content…
While, Claudette wants to be equally be accepted by both species. She repeatedly reminds her self during the drills to have her mouth shut and shoes on feet no slouching. She uses this as an attempt to stay invisible but this is hard going into stages 3 and 4.
Stages 3,4,and