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St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Rhetorical Analysis

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Russell wrote a short story that took place at “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”. The parents of the girls sent them away to train to become a functional and civilized member of society and provide them with a better life than their werewolf parents could provide for them. In this book, Russell introduced each stage of change with an epigraph that described what the girls should be expected to complete in the stage. The epigraph furthers the reader 's knowledge by outlining what they should expect from the girls in each stage. It develops the girls as individual characters in a different manner than the stages do. In Stage 2, the epigraph furthers the reader’s understanding by outlining what is supposed to happen in the stage. The relationship between the epigraph and Russell’s development of the girls do not correspond with each other. For stage two, …show more content…

He developed the characters at different paces during stage two than the epigraph said they would. Two of Russell’s characters that broke the mold of the epigraph and did not follow the epigraph guidelines were Mirabella and Jeanette. Mirabella was drastically behind the pack throughout stage two with adapting because she did not possess any of the characteristics that the epigraph said she would. Jeanette far surpassed the expectations of stage two and was the closest to becoming a civilized human out of her whole pack and moved on from the irritated emotions the epigraph said she would experience. Claudette was the only character whose emotions and behavior aligned perfectly with the epigraph and the stages. She fulfilled the expectations in the epigraph and did not lack or surpass in any areas. The predictions of the epigraph does not accurately describe the characters reactions because their growth throughout as shown in stage two varies and didn’t consistently fit with the epigraph

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