Josephine’s attitude changes towards her Nonna from originally hating her at the beginning to admiring Nonna Katia’s life experiences and the strength shown through her life. Josephine goes to her Nonna’s every afternoon after school and constantly complains to her mother about her Nonna‚ Pg 16 “she drives me crazy. She’s starting to tell me all those boring Sicily stories. If she tells me one more time she was beautiful I’ll puke”. We see how Josephine’s Nonna really gets onto her nerves and wits end
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Explore how perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to place. Perceptions of belonging or not belonging can be influenced by the connections to places through memories‚ culture‚ beliefs and many other aspects. Personal connections to places are the links that are the strongest‚ as they have a first hand account of belonging or not belonging. Jane Harrison ‘Rainbows End’ play set in the 1950’s‚ shows belonging or not belonging to places‚ predominantly through
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completely different from Regina’s family. Josie is an only child in her family and lives with her mother and has never met her father in her life. Josie at the start of the book does not have a good relationship with her Nonna Katia and tends to give her attitude towards her. Nonna Katia believes that she should be respected because she is an elder; she says “I am an old woman now and I deserve respect.” The director is trying to show teenagers that they should give respect to their elders and less attitude
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requirements of her Italian Culture but also is involved in several behaviours that suggest she has moved away from the strict guidelines outlined by her mother Katia. Christina has been constructed by Marchetta in a way that shows her movement from strong Italian culture to a more moderate Italo-Australian culture. This is highlighted when Katia (Nonna) becomes aware of the identity of Josie’s real father‚ Michael Andretti. ‘People will talk. They will talk for sure’. ‘You know what I think? Mama shouted
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discoveries are uncovered through the interpersonal relationship between Josie and Nonna Katia. In an attempt to grow closer to Nonna‚ Josie agrees to look at her old photos‚ which leads on to the discovery of Nonna’s affair with Marcus Sandford. Marcus was an Australian man who fell in love with Nonna in the 1940’s who could give her one thing Francesco couldn’t‚ a child. Josie is angered by this as it condescends everything Nonna has told Josie and Christina throughout their lives. “ ‘You-are-a-liar
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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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to belong. Nonna Katia sacrifices her relationship with Marcus Sandford‚ Josephine Alibrandi sacrifices her culture and John Barton sacrifices himself to not belong. Each of their sacrifices are different as they want to belong to different groups but it is clear that in order to belong‚ sacrifices must often be made. One way sacrifice was portrayed in the film was through Nonna. She sacrificed her relationship with Marcus in order to belong to and maintain her Italian culture. Nonna had a chance
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Melina Marchetta explores the discoveries and changes encountered by an teenager‚ through the eyes of Josephine Alibrandi. Josephine is a 17 year old girl‚ with Italian heritage‚ throughout her life she has faced racial discrimination‚ further more she has encountered many offensive comments directed tat the scandal of her illegitimacy. Throughput her final year in high school‚ she comes to understand who she is and comes to understand what is important to her. For the whole of the novel Melina Marchetta
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because of this. His jealousy is absurd because all Nonna was doing was having a friend over to help her with her English and garden. “He was a very jealous man. He said it was wrong that this man would come and visit a married woman. He even trampled the garden‚” she whispered to me (p. 116). I find this to be very sorry for Nonna Katia in the sense that Nonno Francesco would stoop so low to destroying the garden because of his jealousy. ? Plot
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a stereotypical Italian lady in the eyes of mainly her grandmother‚ Katia or Nonna as Josie calls her. Josie has quite a strained relationship with her mother‚ and Christina also has a strained relationship with her mum‚ this also relates to their Italian background and can come between the relationship the three of them have. There is pressure from Katia towards Christina to be a better mother and then pressure from both Katia and Christina towards Josie. In the end though you come to realise that
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