An Important Quote in Prada & Prejudice

            I am still reading Prada & Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard. Callie is still stuck in 1800's England, and she has pretty much accepted that she is going to be there for a while. She is doing her best to adapt by following instructions from her friend Emily, who she just met and is staying with. On page 111, Callie thinks "Why did I think it would change? Flying thousands of miles to Europe didn't change my fate. Traveling two hundred years, it seems, didn't change it either", and I think that this is a very interesting quote. 
            First of all, I think that Callie is saying in this quote that even though she's in a whole new time period and setting, the conflicts in her life stay the same. Callie went on the trip to London with her classmates because she thought things would change for her - that she'd make friends and be included in the group. But the girls were still mean to her, and she ended up being lonely, just like at home. When Callie woke up in 1815, things didn't change either. There were still people who put her down, like Duke Alex, Emily's conceited cousin.
            I think this is an author's intrusion and that Mandy Hubbard is talking about the world in this quote. I think that she's saying that people can think that things can change for themselves if they go somewhere else. But that's not always the case. That person can't just escape their old environment, they also have to do things. I think that in Prada & Prejudice, Callie hopes that people will suddenly like her if she seems cool by wearing high heels, but she still doesn't get included in the cliques. A person's attitude and personality stay the same wherever they are, and the problems and conflicts they have stay the same too.
           In conclusion, I think that "Why did I think it would change? Flying thousands of miles to Europe didn't change my fate. Traveling two hundred years, it seems, didn't change it either" is an important quote in the book. I think that Callie, at the beginning of the book, thought that her classmates would suddenly like her if she did things that she thought they would think was cool, like wearing high heels, but that doesn't change anything, as she still is excluded. I also think this quote is an author's intrusion, and that the author is saying that people think that changing their setting and going somewhere new would suddenly solve their problems, but that doesn't always happen.