The Influence Of Conformity To Society

In society, it's difficult to go against the norm. Individuals are compelled to act a specific way, or look a specific way in order to be accepted. For instance, teenagers may encounter pressure from their peers to partake in specific exercises that may not be moral, since they feel the need to fit in. This weight of conformity isn't just present in reality; it can be found in literature as well. The story "St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell depicts that in order to conform to society, individuals abandon their selflessness and compassion and become selfish and apathetic.
In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls raised by wolves”, society attempts to conform an individual, and it’s the individual’s choice to either accept that

In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls raised by Wolves”, the pack loved and helped each other before they became fully human. They were not only loyal, but compassionate. Whenever someone in the pack was hurt, the rest of them would show the injured, love. In spite of that, one time when Mirabella hurt herself and was covered with splinters, she turned to Claudette to help her but Claudette disregarded her and told her to “lick her own wounds” (Russell 244). Once Claudette had told her sister that, she immediately felt some sort of remorse as she said, “how can people live like they do” (Russell 244). Still, she shut that feeling out and told herself it was a stage 3 thought; to “reject their host culture” (Russell 244). Also, because Mirabella chose not to conform, the nuns decided they had to do something, “a something so awful that nobody wanted to assume responsibility for it” (Russell 245). Claudette wanted to help her sister, yet she was so blinded by being in Stage 3, that she rather created loathe for her sister since she would not conform. Claudette trusted that on the off chance that she demonstrated Mirabella sympathy, Mirabella would never leave her alone, and continue to act wolf like, which was not what Claudette wanted. Claudette wanted her and her sisters to respect her parent's desires and