thinks the whole day is a waste of time and doesn’t recognise the day as a significant Italian tradition. “I can’t understand why we can’t go…And buy Leggo’s or Paul Newman’s special sauce.” But by the end of the day‚ after hearing what grief her Nonnas (grandmother) went through‚ that it is a traditional day were the whole family could be together to celebrate their culture “…A tradition that I probably will never let go of either‚ simply because like religion‚ culture is nailed into you so deep
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Italian culture is really despite to Nonna’s; Nonna shows a lot of respects and protection to the family name and traditions‚ while Josie resents and unaccepted to her values. Hence‚ Josie‚ Christina and Nonna‚ share a major age gap between them and examines the difference in generation gap in depth. As Nonna lied to Josie and her relatives that Josie’s father died before Christina gave birth to Josie‚ thus Christina and Josie are misunderstanding to Nonna and also did not accept with what she did.
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protective‚ believes her mother does not need help raising her also does not want her criticising her mothers teaching skills‚ was deeply humiliated by her birth when her mother was the age of 17‚ “ Nonna loves us even though its suffocating” Nonna’s love is immense and smothering‚ Josie quotes she hates Nonna for hurting her mother when she was born and making her suffer. d) The girls are an unlikely group of girls who ended up being friends because they don’t fit into any of the other groups‚ all
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In the book "Looking for Alibrandi"by Melinda Marchetta‚ Josephine Alibrandi’s life is influenced by her mother Christina‚her father Michael‚ while Christina’s life is influenced by the grandma Katia. Josie’s attitudes and way of thinking changes by the influence that her parents have on her. Josie is not the same girl at the end of book as she was at the beginning. "How dare you think that I want to be in your life! I don’t want you anywhere near us‚ especially my mother" (Josie to Michael-
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of Nona Katia’s photo albums falling to the floor. As Josie walks into the room a high angle shot shows Nona Katia scraping up the photos‚ with an overhead shot of a photograph of Marcus Sandford‚ who turns out to be one of Nona Katia’s lovers. When Josie asks who is in the photo‚ Nona Katia recounts an anecdote of Marcus comforting her after the death of her parents from influenza. As Katia tells the story the camera zooms in to a close up which shows the emotion on her face as she is recounting.
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1. Questions on the chapters Chapter One 1. What information is given about Josie’s background? Refer to her family‚ education and class. Jose is from Italian descent (wog in the story). She is a middle class family and goes to a rich Catholic school funded from her scholarship.
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the film its different to willy’s value of life. She josie does not value the fact that she is an italian. At the beginning of the film‚ Josie is in her last year of high school at St. Martha’s. She dislikes her culture and family‚ especially her Nonna. She is concerned about what other people think‚ and doesn’t know where she belongs. “I’ll run one day. Run for my life. Not as an Australian and not as an Italian and not as an
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In the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta‚ there are many representations of how fathers are portrayed in this novel. Question. Marchetta’s believes that a positive fatherhood figure is essential within a Childs life such as Michael Andretti helping his daughter‚ Joesphine Alibrandi achieve her emancipation. Marchetta contrasts Michael against negatively representations of fatherhood figures such as Senator Barton and Francesco Alibrandi. In the beginning of the novel‚ Marchetta represents
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her out of wed-lock at a young age. She experiences turmoil because of her over baring grandmother Nonna who is afraid of change and tries to protect Josephine from the new world‚ Christina is a woman caught between her mother and daughter but she just wants Josephine to be her self and not be tied down by the Italian bonds she was. Josephine is becoming closer to her grandmother Nonna. Once Nonna starts to tell Josephine about her past‚ Josephine starts to become interested in learning more and
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and the movie. In both of them 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
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