The Wolves

The short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, by Karen Russell, is an allegory about the pressures children face as they grow up, and what they lose as a result. First and foremost, one of the most important reasons that this short story is an allegory about the pressures children face as they grow up, and what they lose, as a result, is when the pack starts to become jealous of one another. The sisters were correcting Mirabella for her bad behavior when Sister Maria de…

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…

Karan Russell “St. Lucy Home for Girls’ Raised by Wolves” is an abstruse baffling short story that embrace a human-like wolf pack to be taught into a human. The pack consist of three main captivating characters: Claudette, Jeanette, and Mirabella. Claudette, the narrator of this story is an average normal wolf girl that is “...Not great and not terrible, solidly middle of the pack” (232). This illusive narrative contains five stages that is written through the handbook, The Jesuit Handbook on…

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…

Analyzing the two short stories, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, by Flannery 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,…

know them as people he said, “Nothing I have been told about these people is correct. They are not thieves or beggars. They are not the bogeymen they are made out to be. On the contrary, they are polite guests and I enjoy their humor.” (Dances with Wolves…) The misconceived notions that were started dating back years ago, continued on and were strongly prevalent in Dunbar’s time. Native American’s had a label slapped on them, that was untrue to who they were as people, and through personal…

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…

After reading several stories in Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, I found two stories that resonated with me most: “The Ugly Duckling” and “Sealskin, Soulskin.” The former of the two stories is based on Hans Christian Anderson’s tale of the same name and tells of a homely little bird born to a family of ducks. The ugly duckling suffers much verbal and physical abuse from all of the other ducks. His mother defends him at first, but she eventually grows tired of his…

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…

Megan Hoffman The truth and importance of Gray Wolves Even under protective laws, Gray Wolves are still being killed! Although people tend to look down on wolves in general, it does not mean it's for good reason or acceptable. There is more to any creature then meets the eye, and for Wolves it is especially so. Gray Wolves are of a greater benefit then what we give them credit for and are often mistreated or otherwise viewed as something unwanted, unneeded, and ill-received. The Gray Wolf…