Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”
Please focus on any aspect of the short story you would like – or you can use the questions below as a guide. The short story is found in our digital textbook. I am also posting a link for easy access: https://cisyeo.pbworks.com/f/Girls+Raised+By+Wolves.pdf
The girls’ identity is complex. They are human beings who have been taught to behave like wolves. But now, the nuns are trying to teach them to act like the human beings that they are. So, which are they? What are we? What do we think we are? Or what others think we are? Who truly defines us? If the girls define themselves, they would say they are wolves. But are they? What does this mean for us and our identities? Are we who we say we are? Or are we what others see us as? Big questions are being raised here.
How does the conflict continue to develop in “Stage 2”?
What is the author’s message about identity? How is she revealing this message through the girls?
What evidence is there that the girls are humans? Wolves? How are they changing?
Atwood’s “Lusus Naturae”
Please focus on any aspect of the short story you would like – or you can use the questions below as a guide. The short story is found in our digital textbook. I am also posting a link for easy access: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/fiction-lusus-naturae-by-margaret-atwood
- What are the different explanations of the narrator’s condition? How does her family view her? The rest of the town? Why?
- How does the narrator’s mind change about her condition? Why?
- Is the narrator sympathetic? Why or why not? Trustworthy? Why or why not? How does the perspective of the story (first person) influence these characteristics?
- What do you think the narrator means when she says, “Now that I was dead, I was freer”?
