"Looking for Alibrandi" by Melina Marchetta: Multiculturalism in Australia, Virginity, Summarization

Summarization of the chapters of "Looking for Alibrandi"First Chapter:Josephine Alibrandi is introduced. She is a 17 year old girl in her final year of school at St. Martha’s, which she doesn’t like. Josie is half Italian half Australian and lives in the eastern suburb Glebe in Sydney. She appears to be a rebel since she gets into trouble with her teacher Sister Gregory and doesn’t help much with house work. At the end of the chapter it’s revealed that Michael Andretti (Josie’s father) is coming to town.

Second Chapter:Josie and her clique (Seraphina, Anna and Lee) drive to “Have a say day” in the car of Sera’s boyfriend Angelo Pezzini. All of them are described. When they arrive Ivy Lloyd a.k.a. Poison Ivy, Josie’s big rival is introduced. At the “Have a say day” Jacob Coote from Cook High, a school which is hated by St. Martha’s students (Josie hates Jacob as well) holds a speech. Josie is thrilled about Jacob’s speech, but still doesn’t like him. At the end of the chapter Lee tries to convince Josie how great Jacob is.

Third Chapter:In chapter 3 it is said that Josie’s main goal at the moment is to get on her Grandmothers nerves because her Grandmother never says anything nice about Josie’s mum, because she is friendly to Michael Andretti and for several more reasons for which she hates her. On a hot day at the end of February she goes to Nonna’s place. There is a lot said about the background of Josie’s mum Christina and that Josie’s Dad left Christina because she was pregnant with Josie. Josephine feels very guilty about that. However when Josie corrects Nonna she gets very angry at her and after a short argumentation they get into a big fight after which Nonna tells...