PERSONAL RESPONSE TO LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI The novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (1993)‚ is about a young 16 year old girl named Josephine Alibrandi trying to find herself in her final year of high school. It shows high and lows throughout the novel with Josie finding her father and starting a relationship with him‚ to losing her close friend John Barton from suicide. There are many themes in the novel such as Family‚ Relationships‚ Search for identity and MULTICULTURALISM. The narrative
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Looking for Alibrandi {1992} is a novel written by Melina Marchetta‚ which presents to us the internal conflict that immigrant children face in a multicultural society. Throughout the novel Josephine Alibrandi struggles to find her personal and cultural identity‚ she is trying to find who she is. At school she experiences a feeling of being different and endures prejudice of other students who have not learnt to accept or appreciate anyone different from themselves. Through her last year she learns
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In the film ‘Looking For Alibrandi’‚ Josie must learn to deal with a whole range of issue. How and why does Josie change? ‘Looking For Alibrandi’ is a film about growing-up which shows us Josie’s journey in searching for her identity and her sense of belonging. This movie is directed by Kate Woods and based on the book which has the same name. In the film‚ Josie has learnt to deal with a range of issue which helps her find out who is she. Her attitude to Michael (her Dad) had changed very clearly
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MATILDA Michael Skourtis The film Matilda is a clear representation of the concept of belonging‚ the ideas that are conveyed in the film are relevant to belonging by how they are displayed. The ideas of belonging in Matilda are that Matilda doesn’t belong in her family; Matilda finds a sense of familial belonging with Miss Honey‚ Matilda finds a sense of familial belonging but with classmates and that the catalyst for belonging is the personality of Ms Trunchbull‚ it creates a sense of unity
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environment. The idea of belonging is a dynamic and an essential aspect of human life which can come through‚ due to the connections made with the concepts of identity‚ place‚ relationships‚ acceptance and understanding to oneself and other people. These aspects of belonging are demonstrated through the free verse novel‚ ‘The Simple Gift’ by Steven Herrick‚ and the fairy tale of ‘The Ugly Duckling’ by Hans Christian Anderson. In the very early stages of ’The simple gift’‚ Herrick displays sixteen
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Assessment 2: Text Analysis Response- Examine a turning point “Looking for Alibrandi” by Melina Marchetta “Looking for Alibrandi” is a contemporary novel about a 17 year old Catholic girl‚ Josephine Alibrandi‚ who was in her final year at school. Her life was turned upside down when her father came into her life for the first time‚ her close friend committed suicide‚ family secrets came out and she encountered love. During the course of the novel she had to deal with issues such as
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The Simple Gift – Steven Herrick Chapter Summary Chapter 1: Champagne Billy Champagne Billy packing his school bag with his personal things and plans to run away from home. Billy takes his dads cigarettes and champagne. Kiss The Dog Billy is sitting on the veranda with his dog ‘Bunkbrain’. Billy wants to bring ‘Bunkbrain’ with him because he reckons no one “deserves to stay in this dump”. But bringing a dog would cause many inconveniences. Billy takes off. Longlands Road Billy walking
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A lot of emotions filled my heart when I watched the movie Matilda. First‚ I feel pity because you can see the faces of Matilda’s parents that they don’t want a daughter‚ seeing her also that she desperately want to have a book but her parents won’t give her a book and for having a very cruel parent. Second‚ I was amazed when I saw Matilda fix and feed herself independently‚ finished a lot of magazines and books in their house and in the public library‚ having a good sense of fashion at a very young
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lhafhad.kf oved by more people and for a long time. Each person is unique with their own personality. Personality of one includes the characteristic patterns of thoughts‚ feelings and behaviors. A personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life. In the beginning of the story‚ we are introduced to Beowulf. He is said to be this guy that is going to come into town and save the people by defeating Grendel. He didn’t care about the praise that he would receive
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ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA MRS. PHELPS It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine‚ they still think that he or she is wonderful. Some parents go further. They become so blinded by adoration they manage to convince themselves their child has qualities of genius. Well‚ there is nothing very wrong with all this. It’s the way of the world. It s only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance
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