“…like religion culture is nailed into you so deep you can’t escape it.” (p.175)
In Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta, we get to look into the life of Josephine Alibrandi. She is a stereotypical teenage girl with mood swings and trying to find who she is as a person. She is stuck between her Italian heritage and Aussie life. She thinks that her Italian culture will be affected by Australian life. Josie is trying to find where she belongs in the different cultures.
Josie's personal aspirations reach farther than that of her family's ambition for her life. It is now where a classic example of culture clash begins. Josie feels that she needs to rebel against the stereotypical female in an Italian culture "You are a wog, Josie. Does …show more content…
From the time she was thrown out of home at 17, Nonna has always blamed Christina for Josie’s birth “People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.” Nonna was forbidden to have any contact with her daughter. This shows the authority an Italian male can exert on the women in his family. Josie would have seen this and bound with her motivation from her Australian identity could not stand for such a culture. It was not until Nonna's husband died that she was allowed to see her …show more content…
She also hates the fact that Nonna's friends are always reporting things that she does. She undervalues Josie as a person by not allowing her to sit in the lounge room with the air conditioning, as this is for visitors only. She undervalues Josie as a person by not allowing her to She is also blamed by her mum for anything that Josie does, such as "yours let her go out like a gypsy". When she finds out that Christina is not Katia's daughter, but also a bastard, she confronts Nonna and is very angry because she feels the hypocrisy in her argument. It is not until Nonna explains her situation and the hardships she has endured in her that she begins to understand Nonna and have some compassion for her; she begins to understand the Italian family life. Nonna also starts to compromise her attitude to Josie and begins to accept some of the Australian ways of
In Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta, we get to look into the life of Josephine Alibrandi. She is a stereotypical teenage girl with mood swings and trying to find who she is as a person. She is stuck between her Italian heritage and Aussie life. She thinks that her Italian culture will be affected by Australian life. Josie is trying to find where she belongs in the different cultures.
Josie's personal aspirations reach farther than that of her family's ambition for her life. It is now where a classic example of culture clash begins. Josie feels that she needs to rebel against the stereotypical female in an Italian culture "You are a wog, Josie. Does …show more content…
From the time she was thrown out of home at 17, Nonna has always blamed Christina for Josie’s birth “People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.” Nonna was forbidden to have any contact with her daughter. This shows the authority an Italian male can exert on the women in his family. Josie would have seen this and bound with her motivation from her Australian identity could not stand for such a culture. It was not until Nonna's husband died that she was allowed to see her …show more content…
She also hates the fact that Nonna's friends are always reporting things that she does. She undervalues Josie as a person by not allowing her to sit in the lounge room with the air conditioning, as this is for visitors only. She undervalues Josie as a person by not allowing her to She is also blamed by her mum for anything that Josie does, such as "yours let her go out like a gypsy". When she finds out that Christina is not Katia's daughter, but also a bastard, she confronts Nonna and is very angry because she feels the hypocrisy in her argument. It is not until Nonna explains her situation and the hardships she has endured in her that she begins to understand Nonna and have some compassion for her; she begins to understand the Italian family life. Nonna also starts to compromise her attitude to Josie and begins to accept some of the Australian ways of