Melina Marchetta’s novel‚ Looking for Alibrandi‚ explores a number of topical themes. The three main themes explored in the novel include prejudice‚ Jose’s social endeavours and searching for one’s self. Firstly Melina Marchetta explores the theme of prejudice. Josephine often experienced prejudice in this novel‚ wether it is coming from a family environment or her school Jose has been subject of prejudice. As a result Jose often feels demoralized and excluded. Josie at times has also had preconceived
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Year 11 English Communication - Looking For Alibrandi Students are to complete each section as a word document. Section 1: Close Study – Chapter Questions Chapter One 1. What information is given about Josie’s background? 2. What evidence is there that she is caught between two cultures and two social classes? 3. What beliefs does her thinking reflect here … Chapter Two 1. At school‚ Josie believes that she does not fit in. why does she feel this way? 2. What are
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Whilst teenagers often think today that they are so different from previous generations‚ little do they know that they all probably faced the same day-to-day issues. In the novel “Looking for Alibrandi” by Melina Marchetta it explores a number of topical themes relevant to teenagers‚ such as parental expectations‚ identity and peer pressure. To begin with parental expectations is a relevant issue in society‚ especially to teenagers. When parents harp on their children about getting good grades‚
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During life there are many events that we face which help us change our perspectives and gain wisdom. The Bildungsroman feature film Looking For Alibrandi‚ directed by Kate Woods and released in 1999‚ as well as the novel Looking For Alaska‚ written by John Green and published in March of 2005 both explore the transformation from innocence to wisdom. Both of these texts explore the idea that the more we know about people and the more we observe and listen‚ the greater the opportunity for tolerance
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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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change in perspective‚ emotional change‚ physically change and world change. In Looking for Alibrandi‚ the author‚ Melina Marchetta demonstrates‚ the concept of change not only through the main character‚ Josephine‚ but also some other minor characters such as Michael Andretti and John Barton though the majority is shown through Josephine. The poem‚ “The Door” by Miroslav Holub is very similar to Looking for Alibrandi as it also shows the concept of change but it tells us that change can mean that
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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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