“The nuns, they said, would make us naturalized citizens of human society. We would go to St. Lucy’s to study a better culture. We didn’t know at the time that our parents were sending us away for good. Neither did they” (227). This quotation from St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves foreshadows the detachment of the female wolf children from their werewolf parents. This foreshadowing proves reality for Claudette, a changed child who no longer has the ability to live in the “green purgatory” that she once grew up in (227). In St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell constructs a five stage story to reveal the transformation of the narrator, Claudette, as a successfully integrated individual into human society.

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The Stage 1 epigraph explains that initially the students should find everything “new, exciting, and interesting” and the discovery of the new place should be “fun for [the] students to explore” (225). During this stage, Claudette joined the rest of the pack in having an interesting time at the new home: “spraying exuberant yellow streams all over the bunks” along with “nos[ing] each other midair”(225). Claudette conformed to everything that was expected during stage one; because, she had an interesting and fun time finding everything as a new discovery to explore. Stage 2 of the program describes that the students should begin to “adjust to the new culture” and may find themselves misplaced in addition to “spend[ing] a lot of time daydreaming” the students may feel “isolated, irritated, bewildered, depressed, or generally uncomfortable” (229). The pack believed the home to be fun until Stage 2 began. They realized that the nuns were attempting to change their existence as wolves. Claudette's attitude of the situation reflects