One of the most significant relationships in the novel is between Josie Alibrandi and John Barton. The relationship changes in various ways at different stages. It’s through this relationship that Josie learns much more about what is important in life and learns to accept her identity. Initially they were the best of friends‚ but Josie wanted to be with John Barton because she thought he was the best man she would ever meet. She sees him as an upper class man who is witty‚ charming and everything
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The film "Looking for Alibrandi" begins light-heartedly‚ and the viewer gets a very quick understanding of Josie’s character through her interactions with her friends and family. As the film progresses‚ the glamour that is initially associated with Josie begins to fade as we watch her struggle to cope with her final year of school (especially the racist attitude of one girl in particular‚ Carly Bishop (Leeanna Walsman)‚ the suicide of her crush‚ John Barton (Matthew Newton)‚ and meeting with Michael
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Essay: The film Looking for Alibrandi’ traces Josephine’s Higher School Certificate year. Select four people and/or events from Josephine’s final year and discuss how these people or events changed Josephine’s perspective. Melina Marchetta’s "looking for Alibrandi" is a story which resembles change internally and externally. In her final school year‚ Josephine Alibrandi is confused and angry. She is continuously confronted by issues that question who she is as her true sense of identity is clouded
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She was the vice school captain of St Martha’s‚ has the support of friends such as Sera‚ Anna and Lee and her close relatives‚ her mother and grandmother‚ and most of all her boyfriends Jacob Coote and John Barton. Italian Australian Josephine Alibrandi‚ 17‚ says life has become “crazy” at this year because of the events at school especially the HSC coming up. She has been learning to resist and overcome the selfish social and racist people calling her an ethnic and wog and is dealing with controversial
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Peer and family relationships help to change and shape both the identity of Josie and Amal from the novels Looking for Alibrandi and Does my head look big in this? Identity is who someone is and their characteristics. Everyone has an identity though finding that identity can be a challenge but something that has to be done. Identity often changes for the good and is necessary in life. Positive and negative relationships are a key to changing someones identity. Learning from negative relationship
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and you laugh instead of crying.” 61 “And when you’d finished running you’d be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you’d have nobody to help you.” 62 “I spent the whole morning looking at him. He looked at Mama. Mama looked at me. Then he would look at me. I would look at Mama. She would look at him. In different circumstances‚ I’d be amused.” 64 “You’re the father of the person who is my life.” “It’s too late. Seventeen-year-olds
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Throughout the novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ by Melinda Marchetta‚ Josephine’s 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
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Speech- Social & Cultural Diversity “The rich marry the rich‚ and the poor marry the poor. The dags marry the dags and the wogs marry the wogs… and we all end up where we started.” During the time of reading Looking for Alibrandi‚ I tried to pay attention to the main concepts of the book and what we are studying in class of social and cultural diversity. How does the statement “The rich marry the rich‚ and the poor marry the poor. The dags marry the dags and the wogs marry the wogs… and we all
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be recognised in the film Looking For Alibrandi. Looking For Alibrandi follows Joesphine Alibrandi at her final year in high school‚ the year she meets her father‚ falls in love‚ looses her best friend and find the truth about her family. By reflecting on my own life experiences and the characters in Looking For Alibrandi‚ I am able to see how the theory applies to the process of growing up. Eriksonʼs theory is evident through Josieʼs character in Looking For Alibrandi. Due to her age‚ Josie is
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Looking for Alibrandi & Being Sixteen Essay The theme of change is explored throughout the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta‚ Penguin Books 1992‚ where she confronts the readers about the variety of changes happening in Josephine Alibrandi’s life. Similarly Being Sixteen by Michael Khan also explores the changing of the persona as she grows up and changes her perspective. Change may be caused by many influences‚ such as family‚ culture‚ society and the environment; these influences
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