Claudette Language Analysis

In Stage 1, there are a few things Claudette shows of sticking to human culture. “The deacon handed out some stale cupcakes and said a quick prayer” (Russell 237). Claudette is eating cupcakes which shows that she is eating human food. However, she does habits of a wolf.
“We tore through the austere rooms, overturning dresser drawers, pawning through the neat piles of the Stage 3 girls’ starched underwear, smashing lightbulbs with our b are fists” (Russell 237).
Along with her sisters, she was tearing through rooms and smashing out lightbulbs. That is something a wolf would do. The fog in Claudette is now clearing up when she starts to wear shoes in Stage 2. “Keep your mouth shut, I repeated during our walking drills. Staring straight ahead. Keep your shoes on your

“Worse than cold toilet seats and boiled tomatoes, worse than trying to will our tongues around our false new names” (Russell 239). Claudette finds it difficult to say the new names. She’s having a hard time with the new language, which shows that she’s not ready to adapt to the human culture yet. In Stage 3,
Claudette takes a step farther to reach her goal. She is acquiring human table manners and improving he language skills. “We’d ride the bicycles uphill, a sanctioned pumping, a grim- faced nun pedaling behind each one of us. ‘Congratulations!’ The nuns would huff. ‘Being human is like riding this bicycle. One you’ve learned how, you’ll never forget’” (Russell 246).
Claudette is riding a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is part of everyday life in the human society, so the girls were congratulated. She also has “communication” problems. When it comes to humans,
Claudette feels nervous. She also gets “antisocial” in Stage 4. She ignores Jeanette and was thinking of the Sausalito when the nuns announced it. She didn’t need Mirabella’s ‘help’. But at the dance, when it was Claudette’s move to do the Sausalito, she was wagging her