Looking For Alibrandi Identity Essay

Looking for Alibrandi is a film that conveys the meaning of identity through the use of a variety of film techniques illustrated by the composers. The Outsiders, a novel by S.E. Hinton also has the meaning of identity hidden away somewhere between its pages, as does the poem The Road Not Taken but between its four stanzas. Poetic and language techniques give us a better idea of the meaning of identity.
Identity, the word that describes who we are and how we see ourselves as a human being. A lot of things in this world contribute and influence our identity, like nationality, culture, family, peers and past experiences. Josephine Alibrandi, a seventeen year old Australian born Italian, is a girl who has many barriers in her current life. She does not know who her father is her nonna is nags on about everything in her life, she falls in love with the school captain of Cook Iyre and her best friend commits suicide. All these barriers are stopping her from finding her identity, but at the same time contributing to it. Josie goes to St Martha’s, a private catholic school that is “all about money, prestige and what your father does for a living.” She is of low social-economic background and is
In The Road Not Taken, the character is given two roads to choose from, it does not matter which road is chosen, it will affect and change your life, change your identity. The person in the poem chose the road less travelled by while Josie chose the road she thought was right. The decision to not have sex with Jacob has changed her identity in some way. Whereas if she chose the path to continue with him, she could have turned into a mother, a single mother who dropped out of school to take care of her child. She has chosen the path to forgive her father, instead of continuing her hatred towards him, and that has changed her. She now has a loving father whom she can feel the fatherly love coming