In “St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” Karen Russell, the author, shows the difficulties of changing cultures, languages, beliefs as well as character. The girls must change from their wolf selves to polite human girls. Claudette, who is the middle of the pack throughout the story, developed a significant amount since the beginning of the story. She is constantly adapting and learning new rules about being human. Claudette doesn’t change to being completely human but she can manage to get
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell is an interesting story about three girls. These girls are born and raised by wolves. They have the behavior of wolves, and no human instinct. They are sent to St. Lucy’s to help “rehabilitate” them. There are three sisters, Mirabella, Claudette, and Jeanette. The story mostly focuses on Claudette, since she is the narrator. The reader(s) read the story from her point of view. Claudette is a rather interesting character. She shows to be
fend for ourselves. Compassion has become a fleeting characteristic. We are taught to be selfish, we strive to become better than everyone else and we have no problem hurting others to get there. Where has our compassion gone? In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” the story is a prime example that compassion is not distinguished in humans. The story is about a family of werewolves living in the forest. The family of werewolves produced one generation of human children. Since this generation