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 an exclusive private school. The novel is written in first person narrative voice‚ which allows the reader to see Josie’s self doubt‚ her attitude towards her future and the growth she makes through out the novel ‘This might be where I come from but do I really belong here’. Josie also becomes more aware of her attitude towards the way she acts when she says ‘I’m
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his head while his girlfriend‚ Josie wakes up and cant
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Unlike Josie‚ initially he had an elevated view of his father. A Simile is used to show that as a young child his father was regarded “as a god”. A biblical allusion is used to compare his father’s teachings with the Ten Commandments. “..laws were immutable..brought
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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 each other but Josie didn’t understand that her mum needed to have her own life. She
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‘Looking for Alibrandi’ ‘How are the differences between Australian and Italo-Australian culture displayed by Marchetta and what effects do they have on the protagonist Josie?” Melina Marchetta’s cult text ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ looks at many issues of growing up in Australia torn between two cultures. The main protagonist Josie Alibrandi was born in Australia into a family with strong Italian cultural links and her battle to ‘find’ herself and her ethnicity is one that I will explore further.
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hardships that Josie overcomes involves the acceptance of her cultural heritage. Melina Marchetta’s use of metaphor‚ “culture is nailed into you so deep‚ you
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society‚ back then and now‚ there is always some sort of categorisation of individuals in society. Someone’s culture‚ religion‚ and status. How someone treats one another can be influenced through social class. Lee Taylor and Josephine Alibrandi (Josie) are from the same friendship group. They both are middle-class scholarship students‚ and both suffer from similar life situations. Even though Lee’s character in the novel does not come from an Italian family‚ known in the novel to be a family of
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didn’t have a great deal of meaning to me. However‚ as I continued to read the novel I started to realize just how relevant the title and the novel was and how it described the life of the main character Josephine Alibrandi‚ or Josie as she is called in the novel. Josie has always known that she was born out of wedlock to her mother Christina Alibrandi and has never known her father. Her whole sense of family is further rocked when in her 17th year she finds out that her grandmother had an extra
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and pressures of life that Josie faces. One of Josie’s hardships she has to go through is the struggles from her mother‚ father and nonna. In most modern day families it is all too common for the parents to be divorced‚ and everyday it becomes more and more accepting and normal. In Josie’s case she never really thought of her distant father‚ “My mother had told me about him once and once only. I’ve never heard his name mentioned since.” So obviously neither of Josie or Christina cared about Michael
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After spending time with the dog‚ I noticed it was a she‚ and started calling her Josie. Josie and I waited for a little longer to see if someone would come looking for their dog. As we were waiting‚ I started brainstorming ideas on what I should do with Josie. As I was brainstorming‚ I noticed that Josie was too friendly to be a stray and what she meant by she was lost was that she had a loving family‚ but she also didn’t have a collar on.
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