I do think that by the end of Saint Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Claudette became a citizen of human society. There are many reasons why. One notices her changes gradually throughout the story. “We tore through the austere rooms, overturning dresser drawers, pawing through the neat piles of the Stage 3 girls’ starched underwear, smashing light bulbs with our bare fists. Things felt less foreign in the dark.” (Russell, P237). When Claudette and the rest of the pack first came to St Lucy’s Home for Girls, they were all feral. They broke light bulbs, overturned dressers, peed on beds, and found nuns to be easy to kill. The whole ‘human’ thing was very new to them, and it made them excited. In Stage 2, the pack starts relaxing a bit, they realized how much they miss the pack and that they are having trouble adjusting. “Those were the days when we dreamed of rivers and meat”. (Russell, P249). This is also a time where we start to see a glimpse of the pack splitting apart. The definite example here would be the behavior of Mirabella. Mirabella is unable to adapt or adjust like Claudette and the rest of the pack. “Mirabella …show more content…
Claudette experiences one of her most awkward moments when she blushes after Kyle, another wolf boy, compliments her on her smell. "You smell astoooounding!" (Russell,P249). "Now I smelled like a purebred girl, easy to kill." (Russell, P249). This shows how she's slowly starting to accept her inner humanity. She also starts to notice she has somewhat betrayed the rest of the pack. She begins to feel obligated to impress people by trying to learn the Sausalito dance or rubbing a pumpkin muffin over herself to hide her ferrell scent and make her seem distinguished. "I didn't smell astounding. I had rubbed a pumpkin muffin all over my body earlier that morning to mask my natural feral scent."
When Sophia and Princess Calizaire were four and seven years old, they were taken into foster care after their mother left them stranded at a motel. However, this simple abandonment led to a series of problems. Not only were they tossed from house to house as if they were trash, but they also suffered abuse from their foster families. On several occasions, the two sisters were beaten with belts, hangars, and heels, as well as having their heads submerged in sinks until they were near death; they ate dog food, slept outside, and were raped daily. Luckily, the two girls were able to survive, so that they may share their stories in adulthood. The women now live to warn others of the dangers of foster care, as they did through their interview with
protagonist postulant Mariette Baptiste. Hansen’s challenges readers to explore beyond his descriptive narrative to find further meaning in the themes of suffering, power, and gender. Mariette Baptist represents a prideful, young woman who challenges and undercuts the Priory of The Sisters of The Crucifixion through her eccentric faith. Mariette’s piety generates discourse within the convent about the sincerity in her disposition for a religious life. The sisters are challenged to see Mariette’s faith as real and pure. Her religious practices involving self-inflicted penances disrupt the conventional ways of the priory. Furthermore, Mariette implores herself
Within the novel, “In the Time of the Butterflies,” Mate, Minerva, Dede, and Patria had to create decisions to overcome obstacles that would transform each of their lives. Throughout the book, all of the sisters changed somehow. They all grew up, matured, and saw things how they never viewed before. While looking at these things at a different perception, they learned to make decisions that were sometimes brave and sometimes cowardly. Each of the Mirabal sisters had to choose whether or not to be fearful and give up, or be courageous and stand her ground, or make sacrifices to show her strength throughout the novel.
Straight-off, Claudette describes that it felt “disorienting” to adapt to the new human fashion of wearing shoes, followed by her disciplining herself to keep the shoes on her feet; “I remember how disorienting it was to look down and see two square-toed shoes instead of my own four feet” with “keep your shoes on your feet. Mouthshut, shoes on feet”(Russell,240). This example shows that Claudette realized that it is going to be hard to adapt. Also it says “But we knew we couldn't return to the woods; not till we were civilized”(Russell,240), which confirms the fact she is trying to adapt and not forced to do it. At the end of the stage, Claudette encountered Mirabella who was using body language to ask her to lick her wounds but Claudette refused; “She was covered with splinters” then she was making a “whining noise through her nostrils. Of course I understood what she wanted” and Claudette responded : “lick your own wounds”(Russell,244). With her actions, she shows that she is above what is expected of her in stage
During this period, they make generalizations about the host culture and wonder how the people can live like they do. Your students may feel that their own culture’s lifestyle and customs are far superior to those of the host country” (Russell 244). In accordance to Claudette’s development, the epigraph is right, because Claudette says “I wondered what it would be like to be bred in captivity, and always homesick for a dimly sensed forest, the trees you’ve never seen” (Russell 245), just backing up the fact that Claudette or the pack does not know how the humans live the way they do. Another big development to Claudette’s character is when she was riding bikes into town. This is big because it shows her riding away from Mirabella, their symbolic wolf side and how Claudette is pedaling away from her past life as a
A pack is a group of animals that follow a leader. According to Cesar a “a
In the 1800’s, women lived under men’s rules and ideologies and were forced to conform to the social “norms” of the time. To women, these rules seemed normal as they were used to them. In the story, Jane is put in a nursery because she is said to be sick and
The Carmelites were forced no longer wear their habits, but plain clothes instead. Similarly, the Carmelites dressed the statue of the Infant Jesus with plain clothes in hopes to disguise it when they ship it to the Dauphin. Afraid of martyrdom, Blanche flees the convent and returns to her father’s house; she ran right into the heart of her fear. Her father is killed by revolutionaries, and as she stands over his dead body, a revolutionary spots her. He soon realizes that she is a nun, and forces her to receive “communion”, but instead of receiving the Blood of Christ, she is forced to drink to blood of the people slain by the revolutionaries. According to Villeroi, “Blanche at that moment, embodied her martyred country…” She was taken by the “September Mothers”, thus falling right into the hands of her foes. Likewise, the Revolutionaries intercepted the package containing the Infant King, and it too, fell right into the hands of the foes. The Carmelites expected this to happen, as their motivation of sending the package was to get the Dauphin martyred, as they themselves wanted to be martyred. This hope for martyrdom was what led Blanche to flee the convent. The Carmelites are now being brought to the scaffold, and Blanche is present there against the crowd. After the last nun is martyred, Blanche, still in the crowd, carries on their song. The
In regards to animality, this same view about women is directly associated with sheep. Frances believes that sheep are also stupid and weak. He claims that he "used to despise sheep for being so profoundly stupid"(pg.145). Since both women and sheep are stupid, weak, and powerless, then it is clear to presume that women are sheep. Each cr...
Throughout Catalina’s memoir, she builds up her masculine façade. She hides the characteristics of femininity and highlights the key concepts of being a man. As a young fifteen year old girl about to take her final vows of becoming a nun she, “got
The story follows three girls- Jeanette, the oldest in the pack, Claudette, the narrator and middle child, and the youngest, Mirabella- as they go through the various stages of becoming civilized people. Each girl is an example of the different reactions to being placed in an unfamiliar environment and retrained. Jeanette adapts quickly, becoming the first in the pack to assimilate to the new way of life. She accepts her education and rejects her previous life with few relapses. Claudette understands the education being presented to her but resists adapting fully, her hatred turning into apathy as she quietly accepts her fate. Mirabella either does not comprehend her education, or fully ignores it, as she continually breaks the rules and boundaries set around her, eventually resulting in her removal from the school.
The pack is try to change for the better they remind them self by saying thing like “shoes on feet”. The pack is trying to stay out of trouble “we hate jeanette but we hated mirabella more. Jeanette is the good one she listen to the nun. The nun like her the most because she listen to them. Mirabell is the bad one she get into truble the nun shot
The epigraph says, “As a more thorough understanding of the host culture is acquired, your students will begin to feel more comfortable in their new environment.” (Russell. 247). Before the sausalito, Claudette rubs pumpkin muffins over her body to make herself smell nice and to cover her own natural smell. She said, “I had rubbed a pumpkin muffin all over my body earlier that morning to mask my natural, feral scent.” (Russell. 249). As almost starts, Claudette was worried about how to do the dance steps in the ball. “Beads of sweat stood out of my forehead.” (Russell.
Red is the prison’s head chef and Norma is her sidekick. Both women are in prison due to the pressures of their husbands to maintain a certain role. Red’s husband was involved in the Russian Mafia thus making her conform to the roles of a “mafia wife” that is to be quite, be helpful, and above all be respectful. Red eventually is forced to be a drug mule for the mafia landing here in jail for life. Norma on the other hand was involved with a cult leader who forced woman to marry him to make the cult larger. Norma is a mute character due to the continuous oppression by this man leading her to a complete psychotic breakdown and pushing her husband off a cliff to his death landing Norma in jail for life. Both women were once fighting for basic human rights within their own lives. Both were never looked to as an influence in a highly oppressed patriarchal society. They were women who were forced to play the historical roles of the “lady of the house.” De Beauvoir writes, “We can see now that the myth [of woman] is in large part explained by its usefulness to man. The myth of woman is a luxury. It can appear only if man escapes from the urgent demands of his needs; the more relationships are concretely lived, the less they are idealized” (1271). Simply, these women were oppressed to play the historical role in their home life in order for their husbands to feed his needs. They are just a pawn in the
From the beginning of this work, the woman is shown to have gone mad. We are given no insight into the past, and we do not know why she has been driven to the brink of insanity. The “beautiful…English place” that the woman sees in her minds eye is the way men have traditionally wanted women to see their role in society. As the woman says, “It is quite alone standing well back from the road…It makes me think of English places…for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people. There is a delicious garden! I never saw such a garden—large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them.” This lovely English countryside picture that this woman paints to the reader is a shallow view at the real likeness of her prison. The reality of things is that this lovely place is her small living space, and in it she is to function as every other good housewife should. The description of her cell, versus the reality of it, is a very good example of the restriction women had in those days. They were free to see things as they wanted, but there was no real chance at a woman changing her roles and place in society. This is mostly attributed to the small amount of freedom women had, and therefore they could not bring about a drastic change, because men were happy with the position women filled.