Melina Marchetta’s 1993 novel‚ Looking for Alibrandi‚ is based on the story of an Italian teenage girl living in Australia during the early 1990’s in Sydney. Kate Woods’ motion picture interpretation of the book creates similarities and differences between the two texts. By comparing the characters of Josephine Alibrandi‚ Katia Alibrandi and Poison Ivy/ Carly in both texts‚ the audience are able to identify the likeness and contrasts among the film and novel. Firstly‚ one of the characters that
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Looking for Alibrandi is a novel written by Melinda Martchetta which captivates its audiance within the first few minutes of reading with the use of different language and narrative conventions.The book itslef is about a journey to which we travel everyday. It shows us the importance of knowing who we are and who our family is. The issues throughout the book are so much like the ones we face on a regular basis such as depression‚ love. hate. expectations‚betrayal and admiration‚ Winner of numerous
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In the novel Looking For Alibrandi by marlena marchetta‚ Josephine Alibrandi (also known as Josie) is a typical 17 year old in her H.S.C year at St Martha’s‚ during the course of this year her understanding about life around her changes and so does her views on the people she loves most. Throughout the novel we see a great change in Josephine from a selfish and uncaring girl to a caring more sensitive young lady. Her life changes dramatically throughout the year as she slowly changes and learns
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“Looking for Alibrandi” explores many complexities of adolescence. Discuss with close reference to the text. All adolescents experience many rites of passages due to the turbulence they face during that changing period of their life. Looking for Alibrandi underlines the difficulties and hurdles faced by adolescents due to the changes that hinder their journey and must be overcome before progressing through to adulthood. Melina Marchetta successfully explores some of these many rites of passages
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LOOKING FOR ALBRANDI COMPARITIVE ESSAY The novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta is about Josephine Alibrandi a catholic girl‚ in her final year at high school. As the year progresses Josie alters her perspective on many issues including her culture‚ family‚ own identity‚ and the importance of social standing and wealth. This novel has also been turned into a film directed by Kate Woods‚ both the novel and film explores quite a vast variety of relationships. We will be looking into
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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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for self preservation." Belonging is a Perception‚ a perception of fitting in‚ connecting with others or a group of people. It involves ideas‚ thoughts and situations albeit in different contexts of which either stimulate feelings of belonging or not belonging. The Contexts in which belonging is perceived are Personal; relating to connections to a person‚ people or community of people. Cultural; relating to any sense of belonging emerging from a sense of belonging to any type of culture or
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Identifying language techniques Composers use various language techniques or features to make their texts more interesting and engaging to the responder. Some language techniques used by Stephen Herrick in The Simple Gift are: • simile: comparing one thing with another using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ • metaphor: a comparison where one thing is said to be another • colloquial language: everyday speech characterised by informal language and shortened words (g’day‚ can’t) • direct
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Looking for Alibrandi Chapters 1-3 1. a) Josie feels trapped by her background‚ disadvantaged very strict and conservative white Anglo Saxon school‚ does not support Italian traditions such as tomato day‚ trapped by high Italian expectations of marital status and being a good little angel. b) Love: Hate relationship‚ respects her‚ “a daughters action reflect on the mother judging whether she is a good mother or not”‚ defensive of her mother‚ she is very
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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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