In Melina Marchetta's novel 'Looking For Alibrandi', Josephine has a long and difficult journey throughout her final year at High School. Josie struggles to be fully emancipated through her relationships with friends, relationships with family and her culture and traditions. These events fulfill her search. .
Josie discovers her identity and emancipation throughout her relationships with her friends. The friends that impact this the most are John Barton, Jacob Coote and Josie's girlfriends, Sera, Lee and Anna. When John dies, Josie is emotional about the situation but she is also angry about the suicide. She thinks that John has had a good life when she says "How dare he kill himself when he has never had any worries". Josie grows as a result of John's death. Initially she is angry and confused as to why this happened. From this incident Josie learns to appreciate her own life and Recognise that John had to die to feel emancipated. When Josie and Jacob skip school Josie states that it was "the best day of my life". Josie has feelings for Jacob and enjoys spending time with him. Josie likes him so much that she was willing to take a day off school to spend time with him. When Josie and Lee have a meaningful conversation about the future. Josie explains to Lee that she is 'the master of my own destiny". It is through Lee's insecurities that Josie recognizes she needs to reassure her friend and herself. The conversation with Lee, skipping a day of school with Jacob and the death of John all contribute to Josie's emancipation immensely because she is growing up and doing things that normal teenage girls do. .
Josie's emancipation is effected from her relationships with her family. The main people of Josie's family that help her find her identity are her Nonna Katia, her mother Christina and her father Michael Andretti. Josie is constantly fighting with Nonna.
In the novel, "Looking for Alibrandi," by Melina Marchetta, seventeen year old Josephine accepting her culture, and meeting, and developing a relationship with her father, Michael Andretti. ... Alibrandi is introduced. ... (marchetta 167). ... (marchetta 258). ... (marchetta 220). ...
Melina Marchetta wants us as readers to realise that Josie's attitude towards being a second generation Australian in a closely-knit Italian community gradually changes throughout the novel as Josie begins to understand her heritage and ultimately herself. ... The film Looking for Alibrandi starts on tomato day and over the course of a show shows Josephine Alibrandi's personal change. ... Kate Woods portrays Josie's attitude to being a second generation Australian in a closely-knit Italian community very similarly to the original image that was set by Melina Marchetta. Kate Woo...
Melina Marchetta raises important issues in her novel, "Looking For Alibrandi". ... The issues raised in the text are easily related to students although the ones raised in "Looking For Alibrandi" are directly related to Josephine. ... The title of the text, "Looking For Alibrandi" conveys Josephine's search for self-identity. ... "Katia Alibrandi, Christina Alibrandi, Josephine Alibrandi. ... To express all of her ideas and issues, Marchetta has used first person point of view, so we learn as Josephine learns, without this first person point of view it would make it a lot harder for Marc...
Looking for alibrandi In Looking for Alibrandi, the author, Melina Marchetta demonstrates the concept of change not only through the chief protagonist, Josephine, but also some other more minor characters such as Michael Andretti, Christina and Nonna, though the majority is shown through Josephine. ... Marchetta has demonstrated that change can be triggered by singular events. Also in Looking for Alibrandi is a similar change of perspective, but this time shown through a different character, Michael Andretti. ... A major theme in Looking for Alibrandi is identity. ... Another issue deal...
Looking for Alibrandi raises many important issues found in most teenagers' lives. ... Melina Marchetta tries to reach audiences by writing about issues she and those close to her have had to deal with. ... The most popular teenagers are often not those who are nice to everyone, but those who look good and have a lot of money, and as those usually come hand-in-hand the poorer students often have no friends. ... There are always jobs I have to learn because all good Italian girls know how to do them and one day I'll need them to look after my chauvinistic husband. ...
LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI Looking for Alibrandi, the first book by "Melina Marchetta" is an in depth look at the issues and problems faced by teenagers today. There are many interesting characters in the book but none more so than Josephine Alibrandi and John Barton. ... The Alibrandi name is frowned upon by the Italian community, as its not acceptable for a single mother to be raising a daughter. ... Her actions influence her friends and family to look beyond the boundaries of culture and religion and dare to dream. ... In my overall opinion Melina Marchetta's award wining book struck a...
By Mona Rouhani In the novel Looking for Alibrandi By Melina Marchetta there are many aspects of life that the main character, Josie, has to face. ... Marchetta expresses her ideas with techniques such as emotive language, realistic dialogue and humour. ... In this novel Looking for Alibrandi, Josie shows the story of her father (Michael Andretti), returning after 17 years of not knowing Josie existed. ... In Looking for Alibrandi, Josie's family consists of her and her mother who have quite a strong mother-daughter bond. ... "Be thankful that you've found your place, but be p...
In the novel " Looking for Alibrandi" by Melina Marchetta, Michael Andrettu makes the following statement " Peoplechange, circumstances change them page" (243). ... Josie Alibrandi, her mother Christina, and her nonna Katia. Josie Alibrandi experiences a few things within the novel, and these circumstances change Josie from the person she was at the beginning of the novel to the person she becomes at the end of the novel. ... Christina Alibrandi, Josies mother, and Katia's daughter changes throughout the novel, the main three people that help change her, are Michael andretti, Josephin...
Josephine Alibrandi is the main character in" Looking for Alibrandi" written by Melina Marchetta. Josie, as she prefers to be called, she is seventeen years old. She is in her final year at a posh, wealthy catholic school. During this year many things happened to her that made her life change. Her f...