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

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In St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Russell uses contrasting diction to show the stark differences in Claudette’s pack compared to the pack in Copacabana. Russell describes the girls at St. Lucy’s as being hirsute, brunette, and sinewy, making us picture them as strong, lean and hairy animals. The pack in Copacabana, however, is described as fat and languid, and their hair is soft and sunbleached, unlike the girls of St. Lucy’s. The girls in Copacabana are portrayed this was because they are much more tame than the St. Lucy’s girls- they would literally eat out of the Sisters’ hands. Sister Maria was used to the gentle domesticated girls in Copacabana, so she is blindsided by the monstrosity of the St. Lucy’s behavior. Nevertheless,