'Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta Josie Essay\r'

'In this tonic (Looking for Alibrandi) Josephine Alibrandi is seen as an illegitimate 17- yr-old girl who is self-centred, ignorant and erogenous about her illegitimacy and her reputation and what mass study about her behind her back. She is also described as confound because she isn’t sure where she stands in behavior, whether she is an Australian or and Italian, and is paranoiac in thinking because she is of Italian background she is constantly being victimised and ordering wouldn’t see her for who she is as an individual instead as an Italian or an Australian.\r\nDuring her final year in High School, many events take for granted short letter in her biography that permuted her attitudes towards both her self and others, those events ranged from the close(prenominal) life changing events like the discovering of Nonna Katia’s secret, the reunification of herself and her long lost biological father and the sad self-destruction of her best friend Joh n Barton to the most least important events like the incident involving iodin of the ‘beautiful good deal’ Carly Bishop.\r\nFirstly, the sudden and unexpected suicide of Josephine’s best friend John Barton turns her life around, â€Å"The day John drop deadd was a nose-dive day and I hit the ground so hard that I feel as if every part of me hurts. I remembered when we spoke about our license. The horror is that he had to die to achieve his. The beauty is that I’m living(a) to achieve mine.”\r\nJohn Barton was sensation of the closest people to Josephine and they shared many things in common, she later realises how well-heeled she is to have to choose her own path and muckle and that some people like John Barton had their life planned out by others for them and they had no exemption over their future.\r\nAlthough Josephine is portrayed as a confused teenager who doesn’t who she really is and where she stands in society, her liberty cha nges all that, even though her emancipation didn’t happen like the way she expected it to â€Å"…I’d wake up one break of day and see the light. Feel liberated from everything. … Maybe one particular incident would see me through it.” Her emancipation began after she believed she was wrong on what she did on St. Martha’s day and she had put little kids in danger, as a result of that she became more accepting in the accompaniment that you are not always right, and bonnie because she wore a badge saying she was school original doesn’t make her one, it’s what’s wrong her that makes her a leader.\r\nFurthermore, Josephine’s emancipation-in my opinion- was the main reason for her change in maturity and personality, because after she realises she is emancipated she begins to populate who she really is and where she stands in life â€Å"…asks me what nationality I am, I’ll look at them and say I’ m an Australian with Italian blood flowing quick through my veins. I’ll say that with primp, because it’s pride that I feel.” This proves that she is proud in being an Australian with an Italian heritage.\r\nAdditionally, Josephine overcomes her nature in being paranoid when it comes to racism and multiculturalism, and how she is always being victimised by society because of her upbringing, her incident with Carly Bishop makes her realise that not everyone understands multiculturalism, â€Å"I’m not sure whether everyone in this state will ever understand multiculturalism and that saddens me, because it’s as much part of Australian life as football and meat-pies”.\r\nHer relationship with Jacob Coote teaches her that not everyone has a conundrum with her been an Italian and that it is only a small minority of people who are racist, and she learns that it’s not because she is Italian that she and Jacob are separated.\r\nIn conclusi on, Josephine makes major changes in her life, which were someway provoked by inevitable incidences, she learns to accept the fact that no matter what happens people won’t stop whispering behind her back â€Å"If I lived by the rules and never committed a sin, people would still talk.” She learns what responsibilities really is about and learns to appreciate and shelter every minute of her life and to not take life for granted.\r\n'