The key to change is acceptance. “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell shows us that going through a life changing experience, such as a cultural change, can affect how people accept and perceive the change itself, others around them, and themselves. Processing change can be a difficult task but in order for one to truly complete a change it is crucial for them to accept themselves and their new life style. The first thing a person has to accept when going through a change is the change itself. The person, or people, must be willing to modify their lives. In the beginning of the story the pack was very accepting in adapting. “Our Parents wanted something better for us; they wanted us to get braces, use towels, be fully
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For example, “The pack hated Jeanette. She was the most successful of us, the one furthest removed from her origins. Her real name was GWARR!, but she wouldn’t respond to this anymore. Jeanette spiffed her penny loafers until her very shoes seemed to gloat… She could even growl out a demonic-sounding precursor to ‘Pleased to meet you.’ She’d delicately extend her former paws to visitors, wearing white kid gloves.”(Russell 233) However everyone, even the nuns, hated the less accepting ones even worse. “…The truth is that by Stage 3 I wanted [Mirabella] gone. Mirabella’s inability to adapt was taking a visible toll. Her teeth were ground down to nubbins; her hair was falling out. She hated the spongy, long- dead foods we were served, and it showed- her ribs were poking through her uniform. Her bright eyes had dulled to a sour whiskey color. But you couldn’t show Mirabella the slightest kindness anymore- she’d never leave you alone! You’d have to sit across from her at meals, shoving her away as she begged for your scraps. I slept fitfully during that period, unable to forget that Mirabella was living under my bed, gnawing on my loafers.”(Russell 235) As the girls were calling each other out, they started questioning themselves, the change, and what would happen if they
For example, “The pack hated Jeanette. She was the most successful of us, the one furthest removed from her origins. Her real name was GWARR!, but she wouldn’t respond to this anymore. Jeanette spiffed her penny loafers until her very shoes seemed to gloat… She could even growl out a demonic-sounding precursor to ‘Pleased to meet you.’ She’d delicately extend her former paws to visitors, wearing white kid gloves.”(Russell 233) However everyone, even the nuns, hated the less accepting ones even worse. “…The truth is that by Stage 3 I wanted [Mirabella] gone. Mirabella’s inability to adapt was taking a visible toll. Her teeth were ground down to nubbins; her hair was falling out. She hated the spongy, long- dead foods we were served, and it showed- her ribs were poking through her uniform. Her bright eyes had dulled to a sour whiskey color. But you couldn’t show Mirabella the slightest kindness anymore- she’d never leave you alone! You’d have to sit across from her at meals, shoving her away as she begged for your scraps. I slept fitfully during that period, unable to forget that Mirabella was living under my bed, gnawing on my loafers.”(Russell 235) As the girls were calling each other out, they started questioning themselves, the change, and what would happen if they