“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” & "Currents"

“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” begins with the girls living in nature. They’re pulled into a school setting that is completely unlike anything they are accustomed to. They are changed by the school and have new ways thrust upon them purposefully by people who think their ways were wrong. The girls progress through the stages of change. We learn quite a bit about their personalities before and after the changes.

In “Currents” the plot moves backwards. We start with the children being changed, but then we find out the circumstances that changed them. Both play on nature. One group is changed by people forcing their will on the children, the other is changed by nature’s effect on people. We don’t get a lot of information about the characters but we find out the circumstances that change the.