St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Essay

Who is Mirabella, and why is she such an important and tragic character in Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves?” This is a big question readers may encounter in the story, seemingly about a pack of wolf girls learning to be civilized, and if you dig deep into the text, you may find hidden allusions and references to things such as boarding schools. The big idea Russell is trying to portray in this text is that adapting is not always the best for certain parties involved,…

amount of possibilities in the world. In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” Karen Russell explains what would happen if a single culture believed their ways were superior to all other cultures. She uses the vastly different cultures of humans and wolves to describe the controversial predicament. Claudette, the main character and narrator in the book, explains her pack’s transition into human culture. In “St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” Karen Russell writes to show that no…

losing one’s entire identity. This easily recognizable line between lifestyles appears in both Thomas Hardy’s poem, “The Ruined Maid,” and Karen Russell’s story, “St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves.” In Hardy’s poem, a “country girl” runs into ‘Melia, an old friend, in town who has adopted a lifestyle of misleading luxury which the girl envies and strives to achieve, unaware of the consequences behind it. Russell demonstrates the same desire for a seemingly better lifestyle…

Effective Use of Character Dynamics in Literature: An Analysis of Russell’s “St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” Have you ever been reading a book and found yourself drawn into the story by specific characters and you weren’t sure why? Quite commonly, your opinion about a character may have to do with the "depth" or reliability of the character. Believe it or not, authors intentionally focus your attention on specific characters to progress the story along by making them either dynamic…

St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is a fictional short story written by Karen Russell about a pack of girls sent by their parents to a convent so they could be taught to be couth, kempt, civilized, and lady-like. Has the main character, Claudette, become a naturalized citizen of human society? Was she fully integrated into human society? In my opinion, Claudette was integrated into human society by the nuns unlike Mirabella, who was expelled in Stage 4. Many lessons were taught during…

The short story of “St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” By Karen Russell has an interesting character that brings up a big question. Claudette is the middle sister between Mirabella being the youngest and Jeanette being the oldest. Just as her name suggests she is stuck with deciding if she wants to be a wolf or a human. As the story progresses Claudette does make progress on the surface because the nuns would like to eradicate this type of behavior from the girls ,but Claudette’s…

The short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” written by Karen Russell, describes the lives of wolf girls living at St. Lucy’s to learn how to function in human society. This program uses a handbook, called The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock, and the nuns use it to guide their students. The narrator and main character, Claudette, develops partially to the Jesuit Handbook guidelines. She follows the handbook when she identifies with her pack, but veers away once…

O’Connor and “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, by Karen Russell, I discovered that they both had similar themes of identity however; they were presented in different ways between each text. The misfit from “A Good Man” had no real identity according to the story. His life was unclear to the reader. To identify himself, he used the term misfit and he fulfills this term by acting in crazy ways. The characters, Claudette, Mirabella and Jeanette from the story “St. Lucy’s”, show the…

left conflicted between fitting in with society and supporting their loved one. These familial struggles can be seen in Margaret Atwood’s “Lusus Naturae” and Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.” While each family faces the same struggle, their ways of coping with…

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…