Melina Mercouri

Have you ever experienced the ravenous desire to travel after watching a movie? I have. Many times. A really well made film draws me into the story, creating the sensation that I 'm not just observing but participating in the action. If the cast and crew have done their job, everything becomes real - the characters, plot and especially the setting. A thrilling location becomes a virtual character. An intriguing country, ancient city or far away island calls to me like a siren from a beckoning sea

for Alibrandi is a novel about a teenage girl’s struggles in life and how she changes her views on others and herself through a series of events which eventually leads to her ‘emancipation’ by the end of the novel. Throughout the novel, the author, Melina Marchetta clearly demonstrates the concept of change and changing perspective through the main character, Josephine Alibrandi’s actions and thoughts. Some of the most significant changes about Josephine’s actions towards herself, her father, Michael

‘Looking for Alibrandi’ written by Lina Marchetta, involves talking about how Josephine Alibrandi is the child of a single mother, Australian, female and being Italian which affects Josephine in all these points. Lina Marchetta portrays Josephine to be struggling with all these issues in her life and how she manages to overcome them. Josephine Alibrandi is an Italian girl with one parent of whom is her mother. Josephine and Christina, Josephine’s mother, are really close due to it only being those

Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta is about a 17 year old young girl called Josephine “Josie” Alibrandi who is in her final year of school at a wealthy Catholic school. Josie is Italian and Illegitimate, throughout the novel she finds faces some challenges such as finding out most of her family secrets and her father coming back into her life. Looking for Alibrandi deals with many themes such as family and relationships, secret and lies and emancipation. These themes are expressed through

Melina Marchetta’s 1993 novel, Looking for Alibrandi, is based on the story of an Italian teenage girl living in Australia during the early 1990’s in Sydney. Kate Woods’ motion picture interpretation of the book creates similarities and differences between the two texts. By comparing the relationships within the characters of Josephine Alibrandi, Katia Alibrandi and Ivy Lloyd or “Poison Ivy”/Carly Bishop in both texts, the audience is able to identify the likeness and contrasts among the film and

Looking For Alibrandi- Comparison Assignment ‘Looking for Alibrandi’, by Melina Marchetta, is an enthralling story that is based around a 17 year old girl named Josephine Alibrandi. It is set in Sydney, in the 1990’s, and focuses on the life of Josie Alibrandi, and her constantly changing attitude towards her friends, relationships, school and growing up as an Italian teenager in the country of Australia. Throughout reading the novel, similarities and differences between myself and Josie became

The novel of ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ by Melina Marchetta strongly illustrates the concept that cultural expectations could affect an individual's desire to belong.Although Josephine Alibrandi(Josie)has a strong will to belong amongst her peers.She is very restricted as she receives much discontent from her Australian peers such as Ivy Poison ivy’ and her boyfriend Jacob Coote for being an ethnic.The derogatory language used by Carly “And you're more than a wog imaginatively conveys the mistreatment

It is natural for people to feel like they do not belong. I have chosen to explore the theme "Everyone feels like they do not belong in society or their cultures sometimes". This theme is evident in the films Looking for Alibrandi, by Kate Woods, Boy, by Taika Waititi and also in the poems Patches Hide No Scars, by Haare Williams and A Sad Joke On A Marae, by Apirana Taylor. At the beginning of the film Looking For Alibrandi, Josie who is an Italian, does not want to fully participate in a traditional

will have to jump over to reach the end. Comparing this analogy to an individual’s life, these hurdles are like the various challenges that one will have to overcome to cross their finishing line, and in order to come first, one will have to run. Melina Marchetta has written a novel, Looking for Alibrandi (LFA), which portrays the events that can waver a character from their finishing goal, their goal to achieve true freedom. It is situations such

Text title: “Change You Or Change Me” Source/ Date: Medium: Rap song Composer: Fabolous Purpose: The main purpose of the text is indeed to entertain the listener in any way possible whether it be enjoying fab’s witty punch lines or being able to relate to the issues present. Another purpose suggested is to relate with the composer (Fabolous) and gain knowledge of the occurrences experienced by the composer e/g racism or incidents in the area . Fabolous says “I want to bring you in, and let