Articles usage: Why the jacket was with THE in one situation and later...

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Hi there!
I used the lovely text Charlie The Brave for reviewing articles. It worked great!
But There was one question I couldn't give an answer for. Why the jacket was with THE in one situation and later the same jacket was with A, please. help!
Natasha

[Alan]

Hi Natasha,

Glad you liked my piece - I'll have a read and see if I can find it.

Alan
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English as a Second Language
You can read my ESL story Present Simple

[Alan]

Hi,

In the first sentence 'jacket' is defined as the jacket that was hanging.... When Charlie goes into the bedroom, he sees 'a jacket' in the sense of 'one' jacket but it isn't necessarily 'the' jacket that Maria was referring to at this stage. Later of course he discovers that it is 'the' jacket to which she was referring.

Hope this makes sense.

Alan
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English as a Foreign Language
You can read my EFL story Progressive Forms