The Importance Of Clothing In Jane Eyre By Charlotte Doyle

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“ ‘Miss Doyle doesn't know what might happen,’ he urged, as though suggesting it might rain on a picnic and he was offering head covering.” Sometimes you have to change for the greater good. Also things might not be what they seem. Throughout the book, Charlotte Doyle journeys on a ship where there were supposed to be other passengers but suddenly she was left alone with the captain and crew. She has to learn to adapt to her new surroundings and change how she acts, thinks, and lives.Avi believes that even though you try not to, sometimes you have to leave your past and dignity behind you as shown through the symbols of the gloves and Charlotte’s work clothes in the book the True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.

For the symbol, the white gloves, Avi wrote“Never mind that my dress- having been worn for days- was creased and
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He looked doubtfully a Sistine’s bright dress and shiny black shoes. ‘You can give me some of your clothes to wear’ she told him. ‘I hate this dress anyways.’” (43
DiCamillo, Kate. Tiger Rising, 2001.
Sistine's dress connects to charlotte's work clothes because they're are both things in the books that are unwanted and thought against. However, both articles of clothing are a part of the characters deep down inside. Without Sistine's dress, she might have not been picked on. Without charlotte's work clothes, she might not have been brave enough to become a member of the crew.

The author,Avi, believes that even though sometimes it's not wanted, you have to leave your old self and dignity in the past.The different quotes showed in the text were reasons to believe that the symbols, charlotte's gloves and charlotte's work clothes, are evidence to prove what the author believed. Everyone's life has eventful moments, even when you don't expect it. Just like when Zachariah gave charlotte the

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