St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Analysis Chapter Summary

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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Analysis, Karen Russell While reading over this short story, I wondered what others may have assumed of the title, plot and overall content. So I researched published reviews, to compare the themes taken from the story. The plot was quite simple considering the structure was a short story. Fifteen sisters of both human and werewolf species were given to a five-stage program. Allowing the sisters to experience a “better life” away from their parents, who were of the werewolves species. The story goes on to reveal the narrator's life events in this experiment and the effects it caused on her and her family relationships. The author ultimately allows the reader to understand the theme. Which is to not …show more content…

(Russell 237) The girls were born from werewolves and lived in a world where animalistic behaviors were common if not encouraged. But no matter how natural they felt, the children “couldn't keep up with the purebred wolves”. (238) Their capabilities were nowhere near the talents of the purebred wolves, which made the children even more rare than they were made out to be. That was their thing, it was how the fifteen girls identified. Until they were given an opportunity to explore who they are at a deeper level. Not only were the girls part wolves but also part humans and as readers should know they were kept in an experiment that forced the children to change who they were to make them into something “better”. The author wrote of how the parents were always ostracized by their appearance and actions. She also wrote of how it was the parents who consciously gave the children to the nuns to give them a taste of both worlds. And as the readers, we automatically agree with the parents of how it makes sense. If the girls don’t feel one-hundred percent at peace with their lives with the purebreds, maybe they would with the

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