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... In the essay “Levi’s” by Marilyn Schiel and in the song “Red Hooded Sweatshirt” by Adam Sandler, people are greatly affected by the clothes they are wearing. In some situations people grow attached because of what the clothes represent and in other situations people grow attached because of the life experiences they had with the clothes. ...
In Marilyn Schiels “Levi’s”, she shows the change of what is acceptable for women and the changing times through her choice of clothing and her attachment to her brother’s
jeans. In this essay, Schiel uses clothes to show how girls are starting to be given choice. ... ”, this shows how culture has changed and allowed girls to wear clothes that they wanted to. ... Whereas in “Levi’s” a girl becomes attached to a pair of jeans because of the symbolic significance and rite passage she went through. Both stories convey people attached to clothes, but in “Red Hooded Sweatshirt” a person is actually attached to the clothing, not the status that goes with it. ... This gave Sandler many more opportunities to grow attached, whereas Schiel had her jeans for a shorter amount of time, so the opportunity to grow attached through experience wasn’t there. ... She further portrays that by buying new more symbolically fashionable clothes at the first chance she got.
Approximate Word count = 1049
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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