relationships and prejudices particularly between Josie‚ her friends and family. Cross-cultural issues are explored in depth in “Looking for Alibrandi”. The novel shows the family traditional values within Josie’s family‚ one of these being Tomato Day. This cultural tradition is important because it fosters greater unity between family members. In addition‚ Italian family culture has a deep meaning about spending time with family. On the contrary‚ Josie‚ a 17 year old Italian-Australian girl‚ being
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One Day Came Josephine Alibrandi (Josie) starts her last year of school at St Martha’s wanting to separate herself from the Italian culture and racism that she has to deal with every day. She feels as though these things are holding her back in life but throughout the book she realises that her culture is her identity and when she embraces it she experiences true freedom and she feels as though she has broken free. The book ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ is about Josie growing up and finding out who she
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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 the relationship between Josie and Jacob and the differences and similarities between the novel and the film. The
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Nonna has a strong hold on Josie’s mother and on Josie as well. In the book Josie is visualized to me to be wearing long shirts‚ jumpers and pants‚ but in the movie Josie goes around wearing short skirts and spaghetti strap singlet tops. In both the book and the movie Josie is always very cautious of what she does‚ if she does something that goes against Nonna’s rules and one of Nonna’s “spies” sees‚ it will immediately get back to Nonna and Josie will get in trouble. Death is something that takes
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rivalry against Josie’s school. Q6) The speech day was held at Martin Place. The day was called ‘Have A Say Day’ Q7) Josie spoke about sex education in schools. Q8) Jacob’s speech was about voting and how political parties influence us. Q9) Josie was in awe of Jacob because she was surprised by how passionately he could speak. Chapter Three: Q1) Everyday after school‚ Josie goes to her grandmothers house. Most
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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
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symbolism of leaving in looking for Alibrandi where Josie believes she knows exactly what she wants to do‚ where she wants to go and who she wants to marry. Josie Meets Jacob Coote from cook high at a public speaking event‚ the two have an instant reaction it could even be described by chemical. Josie and Jacob are portrayed as opposites Josie’s believes that she is better than Jacob. When the Sydney schools have the first social event of the year Josie looks to John Barton (the son of the national
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Her grandmother Nona Katia is at first seemed to be one of the main causes for her confusion and unhappiness but as Josie receives and insight to her life Nona turns out to be one of the people who act like the key to the door of realization. Meeting her father‚ Michael Andretti‚ is as an important external event in Josie’s life as he gives her a sense of belonging and hope. Josie absorbs the definition of life by learning from her suicidal friend John Barton and she allows her self to see beyond
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prejudice. As a result Jose often feels demoralized and excluded. Josie at times has also had preconceived ideas about the people around her. Josie first thought of Nonna as an over caring‚ selfish grandmother who is only worried about herself‚ As Looking For Alibrandi progresses‚ and Josie finds out about her Nonna’s past with Francesco and Marcus Sandford. Josie begins to understand that Nona’s life wasn’t as easy as Josie first thought. Josie finds out how hard Nonna’s early life was‚ with her husband
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texts‚ the audience are able to identify the likeness and contrasts among the film and novel. Firstly‚ one of the characters that represents the similarities and differences between the two texts is the narrator of the story‚ Josephine Alibrandi or Josie. The stubborn Italian teenager shares multiple similarities within both texts. One of these similarities is her relationship
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