St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Scapegoat is defined as one that bears the blame for others or one that is the object of irrational behavior. Even though in retrospect the scapegoat has in some way failed in their own goals, we use scapegoats because it’s easy. When we don’t succeed in a particular goal or feel we are going to embarrass ourselves the person we blame is the person we assume to be the weakest. The weakest person is usually different from the norm and not the most popular they dance to their own beat. In the short story St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves the scapegoat is Mirabella the youngest girl in the pack. Mirabella starts her downward spiral when she is called on to introduce herself, but instead …show more content…
Jeanette was nervous because she had not yet learned how to Sausalito. While at the dance Jeanette met up with a friend she knew as Kyle. The worst thing happened to Jeanette Sister Maria announced “Every sister grab a brother.” It was time to Sausalito. Jeanette was worried and knew if she went out on the dance floor she would be embarrassed and fail her adaptive dancing test. Jeanette could not remember the dance steps. As Jeanette began she was knocked down by Mirabella. At that moment Jeanette loved Mirabella for getting her out of an embarrassing moment. Jeanette turned her back on Mirabella and yelled at her telling her she had ruined the ball. Yes at this moment Mirabella became the scapegoat and had been used as the scapegoat. Mirabella was kicked out of the school. In conclusion Mirabella was thought of as the weakest link in the pack. Mirabella had done nothing to make herself to look as if she belonged with the pack. Mirabella did learn one thing it was when your sisters are in trouble you do something to help. Mirabella just wasn’t as normal as the other wolves. Jeanette saw her opportunity to take all the attention off of herself and take her failure and make Mirabella her scapegoat. When Jeanette’s back was up against the wall she made Mirabella her
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.
Why is it that we as human beings feel the need to blame someone for every negative situation, which occurs? If we really look at the situation with any great depth, we may discover that an almost endless amount of things may be 'blamed' for the tragedy blaming an individual is pointless - only fate can really be blamed.
“St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell is a story about Claudette and her pack of wolf sisters learning how to adapt to the human society. Claudette starts off the program with a mentality of a wolf, like the rest of the girls. As she progresses into individual stages, she starts to change and adapt towards different characteristics of the human mentality. She shows good progress towards the human side based on what the Jesuit Handbook of Lycanthropia Culture Shock describes on behalf of what is suspected of the girls. But at the end of the story, Claudette is not fully adapted to the human society and mentality.
The author of the story “Strays”, Mark Richard, starts off with the main characters, the two brothers, lying in their beds listening to the sound of stray dogs beneath the floorboards, scratching their flee infested backs, and licking the water leaking from the pipes. The mother of the children runs off into the cornfields while the father chases after her. The father’s brother, Uncle Trash, comes to babysit the boys and ends up scamming the boys out of everything they own. The parents still haven not returned, and when Uncle Trash returns after a night of heavy drinking the boys notice he was beaten up and his truck is gone. Later in the story while the adults are out of the house, the two brothers caught one of the stray dogs and sprayed
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
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
Some of them could have even been used as scapegoats. Yet how does one become a scapegoat? Could someone out there have that much hatred and anger to blame one person for the faults of many? Is the need for blame significant? Does desire lead to hatred and evil?
There are many fictional elements that are important when it comes to short stories. These elements help the reader understand the story in more depth, and help to gain a better understanding of what the author’s purpose is. One of these elements is setting. Setting is the time and place in which a story takes place, it can help determine the mood, influence how characters’ act, change the dialog in the story and can reflect how the characters interact in society. In the short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” the setting is a very important element to show the development of the girls and how they changed throughout the story. There are two different places which we consider the setting. There is the church and the cave. With these two different settings we see different lessons being taught in each
In addition, Claudette is constantly reminding herself of the drills and instructions in which she is to follow to become human. This implies that as Claudette is trying to eradicate from her wolf ways and behave, she has to remind herself of the human rules and qualities in which she is supposed to have and follow because she still has that wolf in her that is constantly trying to show itself. This shows that Claudette is struggling with these issues in the early part of the story. While Claudette has struggles trying to adapt to human culture, she also has some accomplishments through her struggles. First, the author tells readers that Claudette “had an ear for languages” This shows readers that Claudette is developing human skills. This implies that Claudette is succeeding in this new human world as she is developing these human qualities and adapting to humanity. Next, Claudette shows another accomplishment as she can read at a fifth grade level. This is an accomplishment for Claudette as she tries to reach her goal of adapting to humanity because she has developed another human quality in which wolves do not possess. Again, Claudette displays yet another accomplishment as she “graduated
Scapegoats appear abundant in the world today. Political parties and businesses consistently seem to find a person or small group that takes the blame for serious issues. This can cause problems and arguments that sometimes lead to something serious like wars. Scapegoats are just a way of passing blame off of oneself and on to others, just so reputations can remain intact. This sort of attitude shows how lethargic the world has become, where people don’t even take responsibility for their actions. Many people from older generations complain about how all the new generations become too comatose and unwilling to take on their own actions and indiscretions. With attitudes like this, peace will never be found and will inevitably lead to conflict. Something must be done to stem the flow of scapegoats which have been utilized far too much over time.
Scapegoating is a better way to experience success. Margaret Atwood speaks the truth when she states “When societies come under stress these kinds of things happen. People start looking around for essentially human sacrifices. They start looking around for somebody to blame.” In “Half- Hanged Mary” by ……. they used Mary as a scapegoat by blaming everything on her which lead to her hanging. Therefore I defend Margaret Atwood that a world under stress will eventually lead to people being demolished so they can feel better about themselves.
To begin, Claudette struggles in many situations to try to adapt from the wolf society to the human society. Firstly, on page 226 Claudette says, “ I clamped down on her ankle, straining to close my jaws around the woolly XXL sock. Sister Josephine tasted like sweat and freckles. She smelled easy to kill.” In this example, the human society is foreign
Claudette says that Mirabella does not seem to be “aware” that her behavior is a “failing,” (p. 245) and the nuns are saying that she does not “try to earn Skill Points” and does not “even know how to say the word walnut” (p. 244).Which one of these is Claudette The wolf girls “understood that the chapel was the human’s moon, the place for howling beyond purpose” (p. 247). The chapel was the packs favorite place because they understood it was pretty much the wolves moon, except “it was not for mating, not for hunting, not for fighting, not for anything except the sound itself” (p. 247). The last two quotes from St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves provides us with a conclusion that states that the girls are moving on from wolf culture and are getting settled into the human
Julie of the Wolves is a realistic fiction novel by Jean Craighead George. This novel is about a thirteen year old eskimo girl that is lost in the wilderness and is fighting to survive. She runs away because she was married off by her father to a boy named Daniel and she doesn’t want to marry him so she runs away and she tries to reach Point Hope in San Francisco. She communicates with wolves and finds her long lost father. Julie of the Wolves is about a girl named Miyax who never gives up.