City of God: Killing People is a Must City of God‚ directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund‚ is based on a true story of slum gangs of Rio De Janeiro in the 60’s. Rocket tells the story from his point of view about him and Lil’ Z growing up in the ghetto and they take on different paths in life. The city was dangerous and full of drugs‚ guns‚ gangs and killing. Rocket‚ had dreams of becoming a photographer one day. He did not want to fall into the violence and corruption and his only way out
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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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Josephine Alibrandi‚ a Catholic girl‚ narrates the novel in her final year of High school. She attends St Martha’s‚ a wealthy catholic school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Her academic scholarship ensures her place at the school as she is not as well off as the population of largely wealthy Anglo-Celtic girls that attend the school. Her Italian origin has been the reason for much persecution toward her in her life. Her background against the moneyed origins of her peers also provides much source of
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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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Josephine Alibrandi is a 17 year old catholic girl who has far more to contend to than her study in her final year at school. This year her life is turned upside down when her father comes into her life for the first time‚ her close friend commits suicide‚ family secrets come out‚ she forms a relationship with Jacob Coote plus Josie has to figure out her own identity. Josie attends St Martha’s‚ a wealthy catholic school in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs on an academic scholarship. At school Josie feels
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The Pigman & Me Chapter 1 I am a tall‚ skinny‚ teenage boy with blond hair. I live with my older sister Betty and my mom. My parents are divorced and dad left us when I was two years old. We move a lot because mom has trouble paying the rent on time. We don’t have a lot of money. We were all in the car on the way to our new house when I found my pet chameleon Albert in my moms coffee cup. He got out of his cage and was missing for weeks. When I found Albert in my moms coffee cup he was dead
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Maurice and Katia Krafft. They were born and raised in France and would like to retire in Hawaii. They are writers‚ movie makers‚ and scientists. In 1988‚ they circled the globe 8 times to study the many volcanoes of the earth. They love to photograph the many shield volcanoes in Hawaii because they are constantly erupting. To them‚ their perfect paradise is described as a lava lake not a paradise with crystal clear waters and sunny skies. They were attracted to fire since Maurice was 8 and Katia was 14
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Women‚ in particular Italian women are expected to be housewives. They have to stay home in their domestic roles and look after the children and run the house‚ for example we saw that Nona Katia was often doing something at home instead of going out. Josephine however‚ steps out of this dominant discourse and strives toward her own ambition‚ which is a lawyer. She says “I am going to be the first Alibrandi woman who has a say in how her life
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Change is inevitable as one goes through the maturation process. This process initiates self-reflection as one reacts to their changing perspectives. Change is emphasised in in Melinda Marchetta’s ‘Looking For Alibrandi’ and the related text Hannah Roberts short story ‘Sky High’. As adolescents grow their view on the world and them self change over time as they mature. The novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ is the story of a main character Josie who is completing her final years oh high school at
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of her mother’s teenage pregnancy and that is the disgrace her grandmother never lets her forget. In the scene where Josie and Nonna are talking in the house‚ their conversations have shown that Josie still struggles with her identity. Josie‚ uses a high tone to talk to Nonna “You wish I don’t belong to you.” This shows that Josie feels a bit angry with her grandmother Nonna. The film imagery closes up Josie and Nonna’s eyes‚ showing both of them are angry with each other. However‚ as the year progresses
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