Study Josie is an 11 year old bi-racial adolescent who lives with her single mother. Josie has been known to have learning and behavioral problems in school‚ home and community. Due to her behavioral issues‚ Josie was asked not to return to her soccer team and is no longer permitted at their school program. While counseling Josie‚ she stated that she has been extremely depressed and she does not care about life. As a human service professional‚ the ecological model that I will apply to Josie case
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represents Michael as an imperfect father who is absent from his daughters life for 17 years. Josie is longing to know her father so she can fill the gap of having a normal family. Although Michael is real‚ Josie refers to him as a “myth”. Michael is confused and angry about taking on the role of being a father in result makes him non committal “It’s too late. Seventeen-year-olds don’t need fathers”. Josie wants to be accepted at St Martha’s and conquer the social boundaries that are holding her back
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Nancy Tran www.boredofstudies.org LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI – QUOTES (1992 Puffin edition) “My mother was born here so as far as the Italians were concerned we weren’t completely one of them. Yet because my grandparents were born in Italy we weren’t completely Australian.” (p. 7) “It makes me feel I will never be a part of their society and I hate that because I’m just as smart as they are.” (p. 8) “The room isn’t like the living rooms of my parents… but I like it. Because my mother and I are
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comedic‚ modern day coming of age story about a teenager’s experience with the several different forms of love. Josie‚ the main character‚ struggles with her life as a “prodigy” and the relationships between her friends and her family. This book had a lot of emotional upheavals‚ at times it was humorous‚ and then would take a sudden turn for the worst. The main characters in this book where Josie‚ Stu‚ Kate‚ and Geoffrey Stephen Brill. The story is told from Josie’s prospective‚ and she’s a stubborn‚
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each character gains an understanding of themselves and their family therefore leading to them to belong to society. Throughout the novel‚ Josie’s perceptions of herself and Nonna’s relationship undergo a significant transformation. Initially‚ Josie does not feel she belongs to her Nonna because of the limitations she places on her. It is only at the end of the novel
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in her last year of high school at St Martha‘s. The book begins with Josie sitting at her desk in her religion class in deep thought about a multiple choice question in a Hot Pants Magazine. The setting in Looking for Alibrandi does not play a main part in the book but plays a main part in her love and family life. In the book there is an emphasis on an urban environment with a teenage view on the social links at her school. Josie lives in Australia in a suburb just outside of Sydney called Glebe
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Alibrandi’ explores the senior years of Josephine “Josie” Alibrandi with her struggle in forming her identity‚ falling in love with Jacob Coote and the unexpected arrival of her father Michael Andretti. Through each of these important ideas the character of Josie‚ Jacob and Michael‚ grow to understand and achieve their emancipation. Being faced with hardships in life in life result in understanding of identity and knowledge. The character of Josie in the novel ’Looking for Alibrandi is exposed to
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the novel‚ Looking for Alibrandi‚ Josie must learn to deal with a whole range of issues. These include her cultural identity‚ her attitudes to her family and friends‚ meeting her father for the first time and her acceptance of her place in society. Each of these issues encourages and enables Josie to change and to understand her life and her role in her family and her community more positively. In the beginning of Looking for Alibrandi it is evident that Josie is conflicted about her heritage.
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(Napierkowski 193). Gertrudis never has the desire to come back home until the passing of her mother. Esquivel heavily explains‚ “surely the heat from her body‚ which was inflamed by love‚ would travel with that gaze across an infinite distance‚ with no loss of energy…” Meaning‚ Gertrudis does not want to continue to have
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marchette is Josie Alibrandi and Jacob Coote relationship. This is an important relationship because it completely changes through out the novel and is a relationship that helps her find herself. At the beginning of the novel Josie and Jacob hate each other and don’t get along at all. But as they start spending more time with each other and get to know each other more their relationship grows and they understand each other more and form a healthy relationship. The relationship between Josie and Jacob
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