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

In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, Claudette and the other wolves progressed through five stages of transitioning to the human culture. Along the way, some of them developed human traits. Claudette in particular had many signs that she was more humanized than her fellow wolf girls. As a result, Claudette was successfully integrated into human society. Although the first stage does not offer much detail or evidence of Claudette’s integration into human society, it still shows insight of how she is in at end result. A prime example is when Claudette says “that we didn’t know our parents were sending us away for good, and neither did they” (Russell 238). This implied that when a wolf-girl completed the stages, they would likely never see their parents again. Also, Claudette believes the …show more content…
Ironically, she stood out because she notes “I was one of the good girls. Not great and not terrible, solidly middle-of-the-pack” (242). Claudette had the capacity to be as good as Jeanette, but did not want to be an outcast. This is further reinforced when she says “different calculations were required to survive at the home” (242). Unlike the other wolves, who were just slow learners, Claudette figured that she should not be perfect like Jeanette and just seem like the other wolf girls. Jeanette was not smart like Claudette was, but rather brainwashed into a perfect little wolf girl, supported when Claudette states “our nostrils flared beneath the new odors; Jeanette smiled and pretended she couldn’t smell a thing” (242). This also shows that while Jeanette lived up to all of the nun’s standards, Claudette was slower and more cautious when accepting her new reality, an important human trait. When she has the thought “what ever will become of me?” (242), Claudette is in a moment of self-reflection, further showing signs of her development. Implications suggest that Jeanette did not