Looking for Alibrandi Essay

Looking for Alibrandi is a classic novel written by Melina Marchetta in 1992, which involves different Australian identities, in particular Josie Alibrandi, who has an Italian background as well as an Australian one and has to deal with students who are racist to her. She goes through the standard life of a teenager, but explores in detail how she differs from her fellow students, her father who wasn’t there for her up until this one point and suddenly becomes a big part of her life is one…

Impacts of Social Pressures in Looking for Alibrandi In the novel “Looking for Alibrandi,” numerous amount of characters face social pressures that have impacted them and their life. Josephine Alibrandi, John Barton, and Christina Alibrandi are a few characters that have faced social pressures which impacted them and their selves in a negative way. Josephine acts disrespectfully towards others and her mind tells her the best way to hide is to be alone, John gets really depressed but doesn’t…

Throughout the novel Looking for Alibrandi written by Melina Marchetta reflects on several issues that Josie Alibrandi faces during her final year at school. The issues she encounters are social, family problems and falling in love for the first time. Josephine confronts social issues by facing racism and cultural differences. She develops family relationships by meeting her dad and further expands her relationship with her Nonna Katia. Josephine falls involve for the first time and faces many…

way. Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta is the story of Josie Alibrandi on her quest to self-discovery in her final year of school. The recipient of The Children’s Book of the Year and the Bilby Award asks the questions of who am I? Where am I? Where am, I going? How do I get there? The questions that all teenagers ask themselves. It is this relevant approach that attracts the adolescent mind, to see and understand through the eyes of the protagonist Josie as she looks for Alibrandi which…

Emancipation Looking for Alibrandi presents a fresh and engaging perspective on being a teenager and is a worthwhile book to read. Melina Marchetta portrays emancipation through a range of different contexts showing the audience that there is not one true course to freedom. Throughout the novel we step into the life of Josephine Alibrandi, a seventeen year old girl, caught up in a world where it doesn’t seem to feel like there is much freedom. “I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free…

In Looking for Alibrandi, Josie begins to get frustrated more with having an Italian identity and being expected to live up to the many Italian expectations set upon her. Being bought up in Australia, but having an Italian background, Josie struggles to consent what culture she really belongs to. Josie explains when kids came to ask her, ‘What nationality are you Josie,’ she would explain to them, ‘I’m Italian’ but they would confuse her and tell her she is Australian because she was born here.…

Over the course of the novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ by Melina Marchetta, Josie Alibrandi’s relationships with Micheal Andretti, John Barton and Nonna Katia evolve in positive and negative ways as she discovers personal stories and secrets about them individually. Josie and Micheal’s relationship improves in a constructive way because they began as strangers and slowly their Father and Daughter relationship strengthens. During the course of the novel, Josie establishes a friendship with a boy…

Melina Marchetta’s, ‘looking for Alibrandi’, follows the story of Josephine Alibrandi, a typical teenager going through adolescence and learning more about her self-identity. The question posed is, “how has the author used stylistic features and conventions to depict an idea and to influence interpretations of this idea?” Features include the plot/script, characterization and Intertextual references. The plot/script shows the progression of Josie getting a grip on her self-identity by…

Looking For Alibrandi Teenagers have to deal with many social issues everyday. These include, parental expectations, conformity and individualism, as well as prejudice and discrimination. Melina Marchetta’s award winning novel Looking for Alibrandi explores many topical themes such as these three. To start of with, teenagers can be and are often being put under unnecessary stress due to their parents expecting them to do more than they either can or want to do. The character of John Barton…

using languages are also different as they possess diverse values and beliefs. Modern society’s transnational flows of people will force us to confront these differences in the context ranging from language, arts, education，etc. The novel “Looking for Alibrandi” by Australian author Melina Marchetta published in 1992 has identified and addressed a set of underlying cross-cultural communication challenges posed by language, different cultural background, and religion. Through exposing the…