Tuesday‚ October 30‚ 2012 Looking for Alibrandi By: Melina Marchette Looking for Alibrandi is the story of Josie Alibrandi’s experiences at school‚ and her relationships with friends and family during her last year at St Martha’s girls’ school. This is the year her father comes back into her life‚ the year she falls in love and discovers the secrets of her family’s past. Josie tells us the story of her struggles with her Italian-Australian identity and the highs and lows of teenage life. It’s
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Melina Marchetta’s novel‚ Looking for Alibrandi‚ explores a number of topical themes. The three main themes explored in the novel include prejudice‚ Jose’s social endeavours and searching for one’s self. Firstly Melina Marchetta explores the theme of prejudice. Josephine often experienced prejudice in this novel‚ wether it is coming from a family environment or her school Jose has been subject of prejudice. As a result Jose often feels demoralized and excluded. Josie at times has also had preconceived
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Whilst teenagers often think today that they are so different from previous generations‚ little do they know that they all probably faced the same day-to-day issues. In the novel “Looking for Alibrandi” by Melina Marchetta it explores a number of topical themes relevant to teenagers‚ such as parental expectations‚ identity and peer pressure. To begin with parental expectations is a relevant issue in society‚ especially to teenagers. When parents harp on their children about getting good grades‚
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Looking for Alibrandi People’s perspective or how they look at things change because of their culture‚ growing up and maturity. Growing up is a process that starts when you are born and ends when you discover yourself and learn to like what you have become. For some people‚ growing up is not easy. “Looking For Alibrandi” is a novel by Melina Marchetta that displays ones inner struggle with their own identity. Josephine Alibrandi is a 17 year-old arrogant‚ immature individual who lives with her
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In the novel Looking For Alibrandi by marlena marchetta‚ Josephine Alibrandi (also known as Josie) is a typical 17 year old in her H.S.C year at St Martha’s‚ during the course of this year her understanding about life around her changes and so does her views on the people she loves most. Throughout the novel we see a great change in Josephine from a selfish and uncaring girl to a caring more sensitive young lady. Her life changes dramatically throughout the year as she slowly changes and learns
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“Looking for Alibrandi” explores many complexities of adolescence. Discuss with close reference to the text. All adolescents experience many rites of passages due to the turbulence they face during that changing period of their life. Looking for Alibrandi underlines the difficulties and hurdles faced by adolescents due to the changes that hinder their journey and must be overcome before progressing through to adulthood. Melina Marchetta successfully explores some of these many rites of passages
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for Alibrandi is about Josephine Alibrandi 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
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Looking for Alibrandi Chapters 1-3 1. a) Josie feels trapped by her background‚ disadvantaged very strict and conservative white Anglo Saxon school‚ does not support Italian traditions such as tomato day‚ trapped by high Italian expectations of marital status and being a good little angel. b) Love: Hate relationship‚ respects her‚ “a daughters action reflect on the mother judging whether she is a good mother or not”‚ defensive of her mother‚ she is very
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From the moment we are put into our parents’ arms‚ they begin to shape our identity. Our appearance‚ thoughts and actions are developed from them and what they believe is “right” and “wrong.” However unfair as it may seem at times‚ everything done is based on their past experiences‚ the culture we are born into and ultimately done for our own well-being. “Never change who you are to please people”‚ “There is nothing you can’t do” and “We are proud of you no matter what” are three very common
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The novel “Looking for Alibrandi” is a realistic portrayal of teenagers’ lives in the contemporary Australia. The author Melina Marchetta has portrayed her teenager characters in ways‚ which engage with the contemporary Australian teenagers. In this critical response‚ it will examine different kinds of relationships of the teenagers in this novel‚ the friendship‚ love relationship‚ and expectations from the family. The friendship been portrayed in this novel is a realistic portrayal of the
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