Summary Of St. Lucy's Home

Claudette the teller of the story attends St. Lucy’s home along with her pack of sisters. They go through five main stages of how to integrate and adapt their way into the new environment. Throughout these five stages there are specific changes the girls have went through in each stage, such as walking, self confidence, independence, and talents. In the end of the story Claudette returns to the cave as she had passed the test and has become fully prepared and able to go between both cultures. I have come to the assumption that Claudette has not been fully integrated by the end of the story.
Beginning with Stage One, the stage where the girls were first introduced to St. Lucy’s home. An exciting new establishment that the girls destroyed by lubricating on the beds, smashing light bulbs, and pawing at neat underwear piles (Russell, pg. 237). Afterwards the nuns took the girls outside, where they explored more and dug around and by the end of the stage paragraph they received their very first human name. During the first stage the girls began to adjust into their new environment by making it like their own, a dark and dirty.
The girls, all except Mirabella had focused on keeping their mouths shut and eyes on their feet. Daydreaming about home, running away, their past how they missed it so. Knowing they would be rejected by both cultures (Lycanthropic and human) if they were to return to their homes. So they stayed, obedient to most orders given and depressed, holding back the desires to act as they naturally would their former werewolf selves. Claudette was paired with her sister Mirabella who got her in trouble earning her a private slideshow of women that haven’t adapted into the human world (Russell, pg.243). By the end of Stage Two Claudette sped her way into Stage