Melina Marchetta

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…

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…

the novel “Looking for Alibrandi” by Melina Marchetta, the protagonist Josephine Alibrandi goes through a journey of self-discovery as she struggles to come to terms with her culture. However, ultimately Josie and the reader both realise that her identity is a product of her own cultural background. This can be seen in how she learns valuable life lessons from her cultural background, and how she embraces her cultural background. This can be seen in how her life and her choices are shaped by her…

“…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…

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…

ascination is the best word to describe teenager’s reading about themselves in a novel on the adolescent mind or a coming of age story. But why are they so hooked, so attracted, you may ask? It is the aspect of relatability that attracts them, the fact that it is relevant to every one of them as they go on their path to find their 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…

In what ways is Josie able to reconcile her Italian heritage with the overtly Australian society she finds herself growing up in? Salomon Sverdlov- 365075R Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marachetta Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta tells the story of Josie Alibrandi, a young Catholic woman, who is Australian of Italian descant and the protagonist of the novel, she narrates the reader through the final year of high school at St Martha’s, a wealthy catholic school situated in…

Looking for Alibrandi is a novel that originally published by the author Melina Marchetta in 1992 with young adult and bildungsroman genre. It's a story of a girl who is in her final year at school, brought up with an Italian background. Suddenly discovering the truth of her life, the truth of her family's secrets upbringing, falling in love and having to deal with her mother and Nonna's daunting and her father who she never saw until now all coming over to her life is just unbelievable.…

The novel, ‘Looking For Alibrandi’, explores important ideas through a cleverly crafted narrative. The book discusses these themes using a range of different techniques to get us as readers to connect with the main character. Some of the themes raised are; teen depression/suicide, social expectations, multiculturalism, growing up, racism, identity and belonging, peer pressure, adversity, and family. We explore these themes as a young teenage girl, named Josephine, who has Italian heritage and…

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…