Looking For Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta Essay

Melina Marchetta conveys the theme of family and relationships through dialogue. Josie and her mother, Christina relationship can be described as good mother and daughter relationship.

Usually in short stories , peer pressure is almost always involved. Peer pressure is the influence to do something by your friends. In the Crucible, Mary Warren was John Proctor’s maid and she gave into peer pressure when she was forced to plead murder on Abigail in court. This can relate to many occurrences in our world today.

     The madrigal is a distinctive type of secular song that originated in Italy. It was an aristocratic form of poetry and music that flourished at small Italian courts. In the piece, Cruda Amarilli, Monteverdi uses many musical devices that are typical of a madrigal. The lyrics in this song are repeated, the music accompanies the text in interesting ways, and there is a wide range of vocal notes. After listening to the piece just once you can immediately feel the unrequited love Monteverdi is displaying through his words and music. The music and instrumentation in this piece aid the voices to establish form and mood through word painting. He uses word painting and cadences to develop a theme of unrequited love.

The reader is able to watch as Anita, the protagonist of this novel, blossoms into a young lady. In the beginning of the novel Anita is seen to be naive. For example, “Now I’m really confused I thought we like El Jefe” (Alvarez 19). Anita lives in a family of dissidents but naively enough, she hasn’t realized that. It is true that it can be taken as that Anita’s mother and father tried to protect Anita from the truth of what their family was plotting, but still, from that sentence the reader can infer that Anita was a naive young girl. As the story goes on, Anita changes physically, but maturation isn’t something that only happens to the body. Anita’s thoughts start to get more mature as well. Anita is first shown as a very talkative girl who is rather nosy. She used to ask questions regarding this uncomfortable situation, pestering them until they gave her an answer. Through the experiences Anita has had, like watching her family get prepared for a rebellion, the SIM invading their privacy, and being separated from her family, she has learned to not only think of herself but think of others as well. On page 116, when Anita is given food that is rather unappetizing, she pauses and thinks of the people who are suffering and eats without a single complaint. If Anita was still a child, she could have lamented about how the food is horrible but through all her experiences she is learning to say only

Peer pressure can take place whenever people gather and spend frequent time together. Most people are subject to its effects and often experience it because of shared experiences or they share the same perspective on life. This becomes dangerous when a group has enough influence to dictate an individual’s way of thinking or behavior. When an individual is desperate to find a place to belong, they will follow the crowd even if they know that they are participating in something immoral; this is demonstrated in “We Real Cool.”

Groups are portrayed in Nineteen Minutes from when they started kindergarten to high school. “Every kid in the school played a role; Jock, Nerd, Beauty and freak” (Kindle loc. 11600) Peter was viewed as an easy target throughout his school years, but had always had Josie to stand up for him. Josie gravitates away from Peter to be in the ‘cool’ group, and becomes to focused on how everyone views her and struggles with her own issues of acceptance, image and her sense of ‘belonging’.

Josie introduced to the reader through the use of first person narration. At the start of Looking for Alibrandi, Josie was in her class room reading “Hot Pants Magazine” then Sister Gregory then caught her out, Josie quickly got herself out of a bad situation by creating

Characterization is a widely-used literary tool in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Specifically, each mother and daughter is a round character that undergoes change throughout the novel. Characterization is important in the novel because it directly supports the central theme of the mother-daughter relationship, which was relevant in Tan’s life. Tan grew up with an immigrant mother, and Tan expresses the difficulties in communication and culture in the stories in her book. All mothers in the book are immigrants to America, and all daughters grew up living the American lifestyle, creating conflict between the mothers and daughters due to miscommunication. Characterization of the mothers and daughters in Amy Tan’s The Joy Club creates and

Everyone wants to be in control of their own lives and have a bit of freedom, sadly this doesn’t happen for some. I have chosen to look at films,novels and short stories that are to do with being controlled. This includes the novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ written by Melina Marchetta, a short story ‘On the sidewalk bleeding’ by Evan Hunter and the films ‘The Hunger games’ directed by Gary Ross and ‘The boy in the striped pyjamas’ directed by Mark Herman.

This realisation of Josie's leads her to question the moralistic teachings of her grandmother, considering her sinful past. Josie views this as hypocrisy on the part of her grandmother, however we the readers are left

Looking for Alibrandi is a true story focused on and about Josephine Alibrandi who finds many struggles of day to day life to fit in, it displays Josie in the novel to struggle with finding her own identity in society, it is her last year of school so it makes it even tougher. It’s set in Sydney’s eastern suburbs where there are many people who have cultural backgrounds, for Josie she’s of an Australian-Italian decent. Josie’s father never knew his daughter, she always dreamt of what he’d be like. She got a scholarship in an expensive private school to get a good education that she could barely afford and of course it was full of rich Australians who’s were snobs to what they called Wogs. Throughout this intriguing novel she learns to cope with cultural differences from everyone else and how her life changes. She wants to be free “I’ll run. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself. Not as an Australian and not as an Italian and

Looking for Alibrandi is a 1992 young adult book by Australian author Melina Marchetta. Seventeen year old Josephine Alibrandi is in her final year of an expensive private Catholic high school, preparing for the HSC (the Higher School Certificate, which is the state wide final school exams in NSW). She is a scholarship student, the daughter of Christina Alibrandi, a single mother who had a child at sixteen and was exiled from her Italian-Australian family until her father died, in the recent past from the novel’s point of view. It is a novel where, a teenage Australian girl deals with the traumas of everyday life. These include her difficult relationship with her single mother, the unexpected return of her long-lost father, the disapproving nuns at her strict Catholic school, the acceptance of her school mates, and romantic dilemmas

Since Josephine’s life does not extend beyond the gates of Bell Creek, she does not know that molestation should not be something

In the novel Me And You by Niccolò Ammaniti, Lorenzo, the fourteen years old boy is unable to care for people except his parents. From Lorenzo 's point of view, he camouflages among his peers to get through his life. Even though he claims that he is superior and unique than the others, deep down it is a lie that he tells himself to protect his self-esteem from the fact that he can not make friends as an outcast. After spending time with the unexpected visitor, who is his half-sister Olivia, Lorenzo experiences sympathy and love for the others for the first time. Lorenzo transformed from a boy who runs away from his problems to a teenager who is able to take care for the others and brave enough to step out for his own life all due to his time together with Olivia. On the whole, Lorenzo is trapped by his narcissistic personality disorder that he can not understand his needs for friends and community until his half sister taught him how to love and be loved outside of his circle over an accidental encounter in the basement.

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