Tuesday‚ October 30‚ 2012 Looking for Alibrandi By: Melina Marchette Looking for Alibrandi is the story of Josie Alibrandi’s experiences at school‚ and her relationships with friends and family during her last year at St Martha’s girls’ school. This is the year her father comes back into her life‚ the year she falls in love and discovers the secrets of her family’s past. Josie tells us the story of her struggles with her Italian-Australian identity and the highs and lows of teenage life. It’s
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life. It explores relationships between Josie Alibrandi‚ Jacob Coote and John Barton through their family cultures and backgrounds. The Alibrandi family has big impacts on Josie as an individual‚ John Barton’s family impacts him as well although differently. Josephine Alibrandi’s relationship with her family has its highs and lows. Josie’s family impacts her as an individual in different ways and makes Josie feel suffocated by her family and religion. Josie and Jacob are in a strong relationship
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his head while his girlfriend‚ Josie wakes up and cant
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hardships that Josie overcomes involves the acceptance of her cultural heritage. Melina Marchetta’s use of metaphor‚ “culture is nailed into you so deep‚ you
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attitudes towards her family change. At the beginning of the book Josie clung to her mother and didn’t know or understand her grandmother and father. By the end‚ she develops a much more mature relationship with mum and comes to understand and accept her grandmother and father. The relationship between Josie and her mother at the start of the novel was very suffocating for her mother. They were very close and loved each other but Josie didn’t understand that her mum needed to have her own life. She
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Unlike Josie‚ initially he had an elevated view of his father. A Simile is used to show that as a young child his father was regarded “as a god”. A biblical allusion is used to compare his father’s teachings with the Ten Commandments. “..laws were immutable..brought
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After spending time with the dog‚ I noticed it was a she‚ and started calling her Josie. Josie and I waited for a little longer to see if someone would come looking for their dog. As we were waiting‚ I started brainstorming ideas on what I should do with Josie. As I was brainstorming‚ I noticed that Josie was too friendly to be a stray and what she meant by she was lost was that she had a loving family‚ but she also didn’t have a collar on.
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‘Looking for Alibrandi’ ‘How are the differences between Australian and Italo-Australian culture displayed by Marchetta and what effects do they have on the protagonist Josie?” Melina Marchetta’s cult text ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ looks at many issues of growing up in Australia torn between two cultures. The main protagonist Josie Alibrandi was born in Australia into a family with strong Italian cultural links and her battle to ‘find’ herself and her ethnicity is one that I will explore further.
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didn’t have a great deal of meaning to me. However‚ as I continued to read the novel I started to realize just how relevant the title and the novel was and how it described the life of the main character Josephine Alibrandi‚ or Josie as she is called in the novel. Josie has always known that she was born out of wedlock to her mother Christina Alibrandi and has never known her father. Her whole sense of family is further rocked when in her 17th year she finds out that her grandmother had an extra
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society‚ back then and now‚ there is always some sort of categorisation of individuals in society. Someone’s culture‚ religion‚ and status. How someone treats one another can be influenced through social class. Lee Taylor and Josephine Alibrandi (Josie) are from the same friendship group. They both are middle-class scholarship students‚ and both suffer from similar life situations. Even though Lee’s character in the novel does not come from an Italian family‚ known in the novel to be a family of
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