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 and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.” Melina Marchetta suggests the importance of emancipation through showing how Josie (the protagonist) moves past her insecurity of not fitting in. At the start of the novel, Josie describes herself …show more content…
At the start of the novel, Josie doesn’t have a strong relationship with her Nonna Katia but as time goes on Katia opens up more about her history and the bond between Josie and her grandmother grows. It’s through this closeness that Josephine finds out that her biological grandfather is not Nonno Francesco, but in fact Marcus Sandford the man whom Katia had an affair with, which her Nonna had kept from her and her mother. After the revealing of Nonna’s secret, it leads Josie to believe her whole life has been a lie causing her to get angry at her grandmother, and question her identity even more. “Our whole lives, just like our names are lies.” Marchetta illustrates the idea that Josie’s confidence in her identity is weak. However, through this experience the Alibrandi woman are able to move past their differences and be as one because there are no more lies that restrict them from doing …show more content…
They go through a number of events that happen throughout the novel, which influences them to change their perspective on emancipation. The climactic part of their relationship is when John kills himself. This is because John wants to free himself from his family pressuring him into things, which he doesn’t want. Josie is saddened by her friend's death as she realises this was the only way he could achieve his emancipation. This opens Josies eyes to the downfalls of allowing people's opinions to affect her life, and in doing so becomes in charge of her own emancipation. “I remember when we spoke about emancipation, the horror is that he had to die to achieve his. The beauty is that I’m living to achieve mine.” John’s death helped josie to mature and realise that she wasn’t the only one with problems and has so many things that she can be grateful for. Josie decides to carry on living to achieve her emancipation, she realises that although john may have got what he wanted, it isn’t the same for her and she is willing to fight for her
“I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.” Melina Marchetta suggests the importance of emancipation through showing how Josie (the protagonist) moves past her insecurity of not fitting in. At the start of the novel, Josie describes herself …show more content…
At the start of the novel, Josie doesn’t have a strong relationship with her Nonna Katia but as time goes on Katia opens up more about her history and the bond between Josie and her grandmother grows. It’s through this closeness that Josephine finds out that her biological grandfather is not Nonno Francesco, but in fact Marcus Sandford the man whom Katia had an affair with, which her Nonna had kept from her and her mother. After the revealing of Nonna’s secret, it leads Josie to believe her whole life has been a lie causing her to get angry at her grandmother, and question her identity even more. “Our whole lives, just like our names are lies.” Marchetta illustrates the idea that Josie’s confidence in her identity is weak. However, through this experience the Alibrandi woman are able to move past their differences and be as one because there are no more lies that restrict them from doing …show more content…
They go through a number of events that happen throughout the novel, which influences them to change their perspective on emancipation. The climactic part of their relationship is when John kills himself. This is because John wants to free himself from his family pressuring him into things, which he doesn’t want. Josie is saddened by her friend's death as she realises this was the only way he could achieve his emancipation. This opens Josies eyes to the downfalls of allowing people's opinions to affect her life, and in doing so becomes in charge of her own emancipation. “I remember when we spoke about emancipation, the horror is that he had to die to achieve his. The beauty is that I’m living to achieve mine.” John’s death helped josie to mature and realise that she wasn’t the only one with problems and has so many things that she can be grateful for. Josie decides to carry on living to achieve her emancipation, she realises that although john may have got what he wanted, it isn’t the same for her and she is willing to fight for her