St Lucy Home for Wolves Essay
“Riding a bike is like being human once you learn you never forget.” Although Claudette’s experience in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” was not exactly as stated in the epigraphs for the teacher, she should not nor would not be able to assimilate into a new culture in the short amount of time of 6 weeks. Although she seems to make significant progress the teachers only guided her and many others into a sad purgatory state. Some were not even able to work through the program, and close families had been broken as. By the end of the story they are clearly no longer wolves, but they are far from human. And since they never became truly human they should not have been placed in St. Lucy’s, but instead naturally assimilated into the human culture.
It is clear that the girls who’d received their parents’ consent for the program had broken promises to their parents to be couth and kempt. They are tearing through underwear drawers and marking their territory in the stage three girls’ room. The instincts of these girls seem almost impossible to tame, similar to an untrained dog or zoo animal, they are not meant for a life of obedience, they must be wild. “We forgot the barked caution of our mother’s and father’s, all the promises we’d made to be civilized and lady-like, couth and kempt.” Clearly those promises are hollow and without meaning, and it is more important for the girls to follow their instincts and cravings. (Stage 1)
“After a time, your students realize that they must work to adjust to a new culture.” Although this accurately represents the girls’ actions this does not accurately represent the emotional conflict, and even reason they are striving to change. Claudette (our main character/narrator) still shows the internal conflict she faces with tasks we think very little about. Like a dog who restrains himself from picking up meet off the floor, although he badly wants he restrains himself for a