Epigraph Analysis: Lycanthropic Culture

1.What is an epigraph?
An epigraph is located at the beginning of the story and it is used to describe briefly what the story is going to be about.

2. Who is the intended audience of this story (handbook)?
I think that the audience of this story could be the nuns or the people in charge of the girls because in stage 1, it is written in second person.

3. If you break apart the term Lycanthropic Culture Shock into parts, what is it describing?
Lycanthropic Culture Shock might be the impact of their lifestyle in a werewolf. It could mean that they know their werewolf culture and they struggle a lot to change it and start acting as humans because of how they are already used to it.

4. Who is “the pack”?
The pack is a group of girls who

act like werewolves and they might be students at St. Lucy’s Home.

5. What is the pack doing in the first paragraph?
In the first paragraph, the pack is making a chaos, destroying things. I think they want to make their room more familiar and since they are used to being wolves and living in the wild, that’s why they are damaging it.

6. Where are they? What does the setting appear to be in the first paragraph?
They seem to be at St. Lucy’s Home or a school where they would be taught how to be proper. The setting appears to be a strict and organized room before the girls started rearranging it to their own way.

7. Briefly summarize what you read in STAGE 1.
Stage 1 is about the new students adapting and exploring their new home. The pack arrives at St. Lucy’s Home because their parents wanted a better life for them and they wanted the girls to learn how to properly behave like humans and fit in. They were fascinated by how different everything was from what they were used to. The girls were getting ready to take a nap, laying on the dirt, when the nuns started approaching them. Sister Maria asked the oldest girl for her name and gave her a name tag. None of them were used to the language, so it only caused disturbance and fear.