Looking for Alibrandi: “When we are no longer able to change a situation‚ we are challenged to change ourselves” Victor Frankl “When we are no longer able to change a situation‚ we are challenged to change ourselves.” By Victor Frankl Victor Frankl is saying when we come to the point where we can’t change a situation that we are forced to change ourselves instead. This process of changing ourselves is a challenge but in a funny way is easier than pushing and trying to change a situation
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Marchetta compares two different reactions to tradition‚ and expectations through John and Josie. John’s reaction to tradition‚ is that he can’t escape tradition‚ and he feels that he “always had to be the best‚ because it’s expected of me” (Looking for Alibrandi Marchetta. M‚ 1992 page 45) While‚ Josie knows she can change tradition‚ and actively tries not to end up
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of feeling emotions anymore? It was as if John was a ghost. Doing what he had to do to get through the day. Doing what he could to make his father proud. That wasn’t living in his opinion. It was merely existing. His hands started to tremble. Looking up at Josie he studied her. She had a look of pure concentration on her face as she wrote everything down. He couldn’t help but envy her. Sure her life wasn’t perfect but it was a hell of a lot better than his. She could choose her own career without
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of the plot of the film in your own words Matilda is a very smart and brilliant little girl who by the age three has read everything in the house and wants nothing more than a book. So she starts going to the library and increasing her brainpower. Meanwhile at home‚ her parents are horrible and don’t pay her any attention. Matilda’s father is a crooked used car salesman‚ who meets Agatha Trunchbull‚ a headmistress of a local school‚ and he enrolls Matilda in school there. But the Trunchbull is a horrible
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understanding of those around them. This experience is unveiled in the texts Looking for Alibrandi directed by Kate Woods and Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Ablom. Kate Woods bildungsroman film “Looking for Alibrandi”‚ follows the transformation of an Italian/Australian girl Josie Alibrandi‚ whose cultural and filial ambivalence positions her as being combatant and antagonistic. The title itself is symbolic of Josie looking for her own identity. This feeling of not knowing ones true self is shown
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Plot Summary – The Simple Gift The story The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick‚ focuses on Billy‚ who is a sixteen year old boy living in Australia. Billy reveals himself as a reject‚ a thief and a troubled character who rejects school. Billy’s ‘alienation’ is a cause of the combination of all his troubles‚ his abusive father‚ rejection from school‚ bad neighbourhood. Billy runs away from his family on a freight train‚ and packs a set of unusual things like cigarettes and alcohol. Whilst catching a
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An important relationship between two characters in the extended text Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta is the relationship between the main character Josie and her father Michael Andretti. This relationship is important because it helped me to understand how the characters coped with change. As the relationship between father and daughter develops I could understand both of these characters better. This relationship is important because it helps Josie to grow up and cope with change. An
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LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI- CHAPTER 3 Narrator’s thoughts * She hates her nonna because nonna couldn’t accept things the way they were. * She doesn’t listen to nonna‚ she wears what she likes. * She thinks nonna did a pretty hopeless job as a mother. * She imagined her father to be different from who she met. * She wasn’t prepared to meet her father in nonna’s house. * She is not proud of her family‚ she always vows to move out when she turns 18. * She hates the rules and
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when he finds a home in an abandoned freight train outside a small town‚ where he falls in love with Caitlin and befriends a fellow homeless man who lives in the carriage beside him‚ "Old Bill‚" who slowly reveals a tragic past. When Billy is given a gift that changes everything‚ he learns not only to how forge his own path in life‚ but the real meaning of family. It is from this point on where Billy’s rebellious behaviour is lost. Caitlin When we are first introduced to Caitlin in the novel‚ she
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Discussion Family has a strong influence on everybody’s lives‚ it often affects the way everyone views themselves and how people view others. How we are raised will also affect our personalities‚ relationships and judgement of others. The novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta comprises all these factors around the characters in the story. Everyone’s persona is based on what our family teaches us. Our persona reflects on how parents raise their children. Josie grew up fatherless which caused
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