Clothing

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Examples: "come thou and take it up" (pg 144). This is when Pearl would not go to her mother unless she put the A on her clothing. -Pat

"Pearl took some eel-grass and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother's. A letter--the letter A--"(pg.122) Pearl makes a letter 'A' just like the one on her mom's bosom except it's in grass. -Chanel

"Pearl's own proper beauty, shining through the gorgeous robes which might have extinguished a paler loveliness, that there was an absolute circle of radiance around her, on the darksome cottage-floor. And yet a russet gown, torn and soiled with the child's rude play, made a picture of her just as perfect." (p. 62) I thought this meant that even though Pearl wears beautiful clothes, she would've been just as beautiful in any other clothes. -Mallory

“Mother,” said little Pearl, “the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. . . . It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my bosom yet!” i believe this shows that Pearl is aware of the difference between herself and her mother because her mother must wear a weather A and she does not have to and she decides that must be the reason the sun does not shine on her mother. - Lauren

"Adorn thyself with me, thou beautiful child, adorn thyself with me!" --and, to please them, Pearl gathered the violets, and anemones, and columbines, and some twigs of the freshest green, which the old trees held down before her eyes. With these she decorated her hair and her young waist, and became a nymph child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else was in closest sympathy with the antique wood."(pg. 141) This incident makes it seem like Pearl can't help to make herself look pretty and add to clothing. - Alexis