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

The Agony of So-Called Civilization “Kill the Indian and save the man (Boxer).” According to a popular Indian boarding school principal in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the objective for civilization in Indian boarding schools and, in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” was to basically train students to become someone they were not. When students entered into these schools, instructors practically tried to obliterate all knowledge from the students’ preceding culture. This was possible because students went without seeing their parents, and as a result many students became extremely homesick. However, all of these conditions were considered necessary for a student to adapt to a foreign lifestyle, students not seeing their relatives, and students being mandated to hate where they came from. Forced into boarding schools, the students in “St. Lucy’s …show more content…
Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.” Most students, if not all, suffered homesickness. Students in the boarding schools would try and run away from the schools, but most were caught and brought back by the police. In the Indian boarding schools students would not see their family for several years. Some relatives would send countless letters begging the schools to let their children come home for a visit, relatives would be so desperate that some would offer to send large amounts of money just to see their child. Sadly, the schools would not comply, since it was viewed as an impractical reason to send a student home. (Child, 49) However, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” was the complete opposite, the gates were left wide open at night, and students were free to go, but they all did not, although students were homesick they were afraid to disappoint their mothers. Although dealing with homesickness was not an actual concept taught, it was probably one of the most troublesome to