“The Girl Who Howled Human”
Wolves are loyal, compassionate, and would do anything for the ones they love. And, humans on the other hand? Not so much. In the story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, Claudette, the narrator, through the so-called ‘stages of human development’ by adapting to human culture from lycanthropy , and soon acquired the ways of homo sapiens lifestyle and the many differences in the civilizations. This story is about her and the rest of the pack learning that their new environment is quite different, “This wasn’t like the woods, where you had to be your fastest and your strongest and your bravest self. Different sorts of calculations were required to survive at the home” (Russell 232.) Some …show more content…
It is said in Stage 1 that everything is new and exciting. The girls, strongly objected in the beginning, but soon found a liking for exploring the grounds, ¨That first afternoon, the nuns gave us free rein of the grounds. Everything was new, exciting, and interesting¨ (227.) The nuns and their werewolf parents alike, both convinced these girls that they would soon be involved in a new and better culture, ¨The nuns, they said, would make us naturalized citizens of human society. We would go to St. Lucy’s to study a better culture” (227.) It is assumed that their parents want a better life for their daughters, and wants them to fit in, unlike them; stuck in between two …show more content…
Stage 3 states students will, “... make generalizations about the host culture and wonder how people can live like they do. Before the Stage 3 epigraph, it says, “...I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do?” Claudette starts to question the new culture and starts to judge others for not developing and adapting like she did so quickly. Her hatred for Mirabella continued to grow; on page 236, she says, “ But the truth is that by Stage 3 I wanted her gone. Mirabella’s inability to adapt was taking a visible toll.” She started to think she was better than others, and became more selfish which shows she’s adapting to human
Wolves are loyal, compassionate, and would do anything for the ones they love. And, humans on the other hand? Not so much. In the story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, Claudette, the narrator, through the so-called ‘stages of human development’ by adapting to human culture from lycanthropy , and soon acquired the ways of homo sapiens lifestyle and the many differences in the civilizations. This story is about her and the rest of the pack learning that their new environment is quite different, “This wasn’t like the woods, where you had to be your fastest and your strongest and your bravest self. Different sorts of calculations were required to survive at the home” (Russell 232.) Some …show more content…
It is said in Stage 1 that everything is new and exciting. The girls, strongly objected in the beginning, but soon found a liking for exploring the grounds, ¨That first afternoon, the nuns gave us free rein of the grounds. Everything was new, exciting, and interesting¨ (227.) The nuns and their werewolf parents alike, both convinced these girls that they would soon be involved in a new and better culture, ¨The nuns, they said, would make us naturalized citizens of human society. We would go to St. Lucy’s to study a better culture” (227.) It is assumed that their parents want a better life for their daughters, and wants them to fit in, unlike them; stuck in between two …show more content…
Stage 3 states students will, “... make generalizations about the host culture and wonder how people can live like they do. Before the Stage 3 epigraph, it says, “...I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do?” Claudette starts to question the new culture and starts to judge others for not developing and adapting like she did so quickly. Her hatred for Mirabella continued to grow; on page 236, she says, “ But the truth is that by Stage 3 I wanted her gone. Mirabella’s inability to adapt was taking a visible toll.” She started to think she was better than others, and became more selfish which shows she’s adapting to human