Clover's Confidence In The Other Side, By Jacqueline Woodson

“What’s wrong with being confident?” -Demi Lovato. In the story The Other Side, by Jacqueline Woodson, Clover learns to have confidence in herself. Clover is a girl trying to find her way in a world where skin color determines everything. Towards the beginning of the story, Clover doesn’t have any confidence. As the story progresses, Clover starts to have confidence in what she does. By the time the story ends Clover has confidence in herself. In the beginning Clover doesn’t have confidence in herself. For example, Clover doesn’t question many things, like when, “Mama said, Don’t climb over the fence when you play. She said it wasn’t safe.” This proves that Clover wasn’t confident at the time, because if she was she would have asked why and a lot of other follow up questions. Another example is when Annie asks to play with them, Sandra says no and Clover does nothing, but think about it. This show that Clover wasn’t confident at the time, because if she was she would have said something about it. This shows that, in the beginning Clover doesn’t have confidence in herself. …show more content…
For instance, Clover asks her mom if she can go play in the rain. This demonstrates that Clover starts to have confidence in what she does because before she rarely asked her mom anything. Another example is when Clover goes to the fence and talks to Annie. This displays that Clover starts to have confidence in what she does because if she wasn’t start starting to have confidence she would have come back after half way, because she would be second guessing herself. This shows that as the story progresses, Clover starts to have confidence in what she