Kapil also explores the concept of a primal home and how the wolf mother showed more love, care, and compassion, traditionally seen as human traits, towards the two girls than the girls' own people, humans, gave them. The humans brutalized the girls and attempted to change them, whereas the wolf mother took them in and cared for them regardless of the fact that the human girls did not at all resemble her wolf cubs. Kapil brings up the question of whether the feral children's primal home was with the wolves or with the humans, or perhaps with neither and how this relates to colonial rule where people are separated from their homes and cultures and don't truly fit or belong in either of their worlds.
