Mirabella Stage 3 Summary

Stage 3 During stage 3, in the beginning, Mirabella’s failing is starting to become quite noticed by the nuns, and the nuns know that, “something must be done.” (pg. 245) Claudette knew that something was going to happen to Mirabella, but didn’t bother to warn her, as Mirabella’s health began to decline, as shown on page 245, and Mirabella was an overall nuisance to the pack. During stage 3, the pack met their first purebred girls, who were volunteer fourth grade girls from St. Lucy’s School for Girls. The purebred girls played checkers with them, and were quite passive when the pack would tear up the checkers board. They even purposely made mistakes in the game to give the girls advantage! Jeanette learned how to dance, and had even mastered a basic form of a dance called the Charleston. The girls, after learning how to ride a bike, would take rides into town, accompanied by the nuns. Mirabella chased after them, and the girls would pedal faster away from her. Around then, they had all had 6 weeks of lessons, but no one could do the Sausalito but Jeanette. The nuns had given announcement of a Debutante Ball, and this angered Claudette, as she felt the pack wasn’t ready to see the
247) They learned how to construct the old hunger into song. The old hunger was wanting to go out into the night and hunt. The old hunger was their want to escape back into the woods and go home. The channeling of emotions into song helped them to let out those feelings that had been bottled up inside ever since the first name tag. When the shadows would reflect around the chapel, they reminded Claudette of her mother, who she was struggling to conjure up a picture of. This shows that she was becoming far removed from her origins, or at least far enough to not remember her mother’s face. The girls soon learned that the moon was not for any necessary purpose for the humans, it was purely for