RITUALS‚ RULES‚ CULTURAL TRADITION " illegitimacy isn’t a big deal any more!" (p35) Jacob: " But what’s the big deal? Everyone has babies without being married these days. Everyone lives together and gets remarried." Josie: "We live in the same country but we’re different. What’s taboo for Italians isn’t taboo for Australians." (p152) " A daughter’s behaviour always reflects on how good a mother is." (p37) " you want to go out?" " You’d have to meet my mother." (p106) Tomato day National
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The film "Looking for Alibrandi" begins light-heartedly‚ and the viewer gets a very quick understanding of Josie’s character through her interactions with her friends and family. As the film progresses‚ the glamour that is initially associated with Josie begins to fade as we watch her struggle to cope with her final year of school (especially the racist attitude of one girl in particular‚ Carly Bishop (Leeanna Walsman)‚ the suicide of her crush‚ John Barton (Matthew Newton)‚ and meeting with Michael
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The novel “Looking for Alibrandi” is a realistic portrayal of teenagers’ lives in the contemporary Australia. The author Melina Marchetta has portrayed her teenager characters in ways‚ which engage with the contemporary Australian teenagers. In this critical response‚ it will examine different kinds of relationships of the teenagers in this novel‚ the friendship‚ love relationship‚ and expectations from the family. The friendship been portrayed in this novel is a realistic portrayal of the
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From the moment we are put into our parents’ arms‚ they begin to shape our identity. Our appearance‚ thoughts and actions are developed from them and what they believe is “right” and “wrong.” However unfair as it may seem at times‚ everything done is based on their past experiences‚ the culture we are born into and ultimately done for our own well-being. “Never change who you are to please people”‚ “There is nothing you can’t do” and “We are proud of you no matter what” are three very common
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Essay: The film Looking for Alibrandi’ traces Josephine’s Higher School Certificate year. Select four people and/or events from Josephine’s final year and discuss how these people or events changed Josephine’s perspective. Melina Marchetta’s "looking for Alibrandi" is a story which resembles change internally and externally. In her final school year‚ Josephine Alibrandi is confused and angry. She is continuously confronted by issues that question who she is as her true sense of identity is clouded
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In the novel‚ Looking for Alibrandi‚ Josie must learn to deal with a whole range of issues. These include her cultural identity‚ her attitudes to her family and friends‚ meeting her father for the first time and her acceptance of her place in society. Each of these issues encourages and enables Josie to change and to understand her life and her role in her family and her community more positively. In the beginning of Looking for Alibrandi it is evident that Josie is conflicted about her heritage
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Proposal for a Related Text Looking for Alibrandi is a good example of expanding on the theme of belonging. Jose is a confused girl who is searching to find where she belongs in her two different cultures and trying to find a balance of both. Jose being a ’bastard’ reflects how she does not feel she belongs in her family‚ as her nonna has always blamed Jose’s mother‚ Christina for her birth. A quote that proves this is "Nonna says where lucky to be included‚ because we’re cursed we don’t really
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day I die. I used to wish when I was young that my mother had made a mistake and that my father wasn’t the son of an Italian‚ but an Australian. So I could be part of the in crowd’ you know." (152) Race is a prominent aspect in the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. Ethnic notions are evident throughout the book as they construct a variety of values which link together to create a being of reality. Within the text illegitimacy‚ discrimination and status are demonstrated It is unmistakable
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Individual Text Record Sheet for AOS: Belonging Title: Looking for Alibrandi Composer: Melina Marchetta Form and text type: Novel Publication date: 1992 Context: Set in 1992‚ Sydney‚ Australia‚ surrounding the secluded Italian community. Audience: Young adults Purpose: To educate young adults on the stresses and losses of life and how‚ through reflection‚ they can set you free. Brief synopsis of text: Looking for Alibrandi focuses on one girl and the shame her family’s indiscretions have
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Looking for Alibrandi Reflective Reading Journal Chapters 12 and 13: * Character I don’t like Nonno Francesco‚ Nonna’s husband because he is a very jealous man. He himself believes that if he left his wife at home for weeks at a time that she will not go and socialise. I find him to be very arrogant and very scary because of this. His jealousy is absurd because all Nonna was doing was having a friend over to help her with her English and garden. “He was a very jealous man. He said it was
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