In Melina MarchettaÃÂs novel, "Saving Francesca", the protagonist, Francesca Spinnelli, is a girl who goes through significant changes as a result of both normal adolescence and complicated family circumstances. Throughout her first year at St. Sebastian, a school which has only recently accepted girls, Francesca deals with issues around her relationship to her family, making and losing friends, and finding her own identity. By facing difficult situations and learning to trust herself, Francesca transforms herself over the year that is covered in this story.
Francesca Spinelli is an Italian girl who lives in a suburb of Sydney Australia with her 10 year old brother Luca, her father, Rob and her mother, Mia. There is also a lot of extended family who are an active part of her life. Her mother is the focal point of their family, always pushing Francesca to be more outgoing with lectures and motivational sayings and songs.
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Piero della Francesca: Pala Brera or Madonna and C...Mia also does everything for the family including driving, organizing their schedules, shopping, cooking and helping with homework. She is a force in FrancescaÃÂs life and the reason that she is at a new school. When Mia has a nervous breakdown and no longer gets out of bed in the morning, FrancescaÃÂs, already rocky world, is thrown into confusion. Francesca has always had MiaÃÂs strong opinions to rebel against now she is left completely on her own. The story is told in the first person by Francesca and she says, ÃÂÃÂ but today the Mia we all know disappears and she becomes someone with nothing to say. Someone a bit like me.(Marchetta 5)ÃÂFrancesca and her family have always been dependent on Mia to run their household so when MiaÃÂs depression lasts more than two weeks Francesca and her brother are sent to live with different relatives. Francesca...