Josie's Emancipation Essay
Looking for Alibrandi by Melinda Marchetta is a novel that follows the life of Josie Alibrandi during Year 12. It shows her growth and maturity from the start of the year to the dramatic end. In this essay I am writing about how Melinda Marchetta used Plot, Character, Setting and language to show how Josie explores emancipation.
There were many key events that Josie came across during the year that led to her emancipation. At her School, St. Martha's, she doesn't feel comfortable there because the people that go there are "Mostly Anglo-Saxon Australians, who I can't see having a problem in the world." (pg. 6), She wanted to a school were all her friends had gone, they were Italian and Greek, they were on her level and they could relate to each other. But at her new school she was different from everyone else.
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Josie (Donovan song)Over the course of the year she realises where her place in life is, and she feels that no matter what nationality you are you should be proud of who you are, she feels that multiculturalism is always going to be a part of Australia just as much as "Football and meat-pies" (pg.258). She also felt uncomfortable at her school and in her community because she did not know her father at all. All the Italians that Josie knew would talk about how she did not know who her father was; this would make Nonna Katia complain to Christina which, would then upset Josie, this would make Josie be very angry with the man who was her father. But when she finally meets her father and gets to him, she changes her views on him and lets him into her life. She realises that a lot has changed in her...