St Lucy Theme

“St.Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves” by Karen Russell and “Letter 7” by Raine Rilke both strongly encourage self-development prior to interpersonal deep rooted relationships. These authors wrote about the same central themes but used different perspectives in accordance with what they most thought would impact the reader most.Both texts support a central theme; the more virtuous life is lived the more flourishing it will become. This theme can be broken down into two sub-themes (of which are also supported by both texts. The first sub-theme would be that when you are struggling with group and self-identity, choose self, for its path is most difficult. The other theme would be that lack of patience will lead to detrimental results. Both “St.Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves” and “Letter 7” send verisimilar messages in the manner one should make habit of in their lives.

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The text supports this by telling of the slow and yet destructive process group identity will take to destroy a person's mentality; and by telling about how the path of self-identity shows virtues of infallible strength. The texts depict both culture and personality loss, explaining “as soon as we realized someone higher in the food chain was watching us, we wanted only to be pleasing in their sight… but if Mirabella had this latent instinct, the nuns couldn’t figure out of to activate it”. Because of her refusal to ‘obey’, Mirabella is kicked out of the pack, and yet was (and presumably is) thriving.However, Claudette, who was accepted into this warped group identity has changed herself to the point her own parents do not recognize her. “St.Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves shows an avid depiction of life in both developed self- identity and developed group-identity. This same theme is depicted in a more