The Theme Of Identity In Looking For Alibrandi Essay

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Looking for Alibrandi Essay The popular book “Looking for Alibrandi” written by Italian author Melina Marchetta explores the journey of protagonist “Josephine Alibrandi” on her final year of high school. Throughout her last year she came across many issues that changed her sense of identity towards herself. Some issues such as expectations from her family and her own, romantic interest, Italian-Australia background, lack of acceptance in her family, but through all this hardship she manages to resolve her problems, but at the end, she finally understands why everything happened, shown by the last line in the book “Because I finally understood” (Pg 261) At age seventeen is experiencing her final year of high school. She constantly feels self-conscious about herself, believing that everyone is talking behind her back because she was born without one of her parents. She is different from the most students at St Martha’s and only relates to a few.…show more content…
At 16 she is kicked out of the house by your father Francesco, she has to support herself and a baby, she does her best to give Josie all she can. Josie and her mother have a strong relationship due to them being independent and the constant nagging from Nonna. Nonna is also a very strong woman, she tells Josie how Francesco treated her like a farm animal and how Marcus Stanford was there in her time of need. When Josie found out Marcus Standford was her real grandfather Josie despised Nonna and hated her for it “I hate you, Not because of my life But because of my mother's” (P218) She is angry that Nonna abandoned Christina because she got pregnant and the father was unknown but at the same time Nonna had done the same. In the end Josie forgives her after a period of time “ It took me a week to realise that I was no longer angry about what Nonna did thirty-six years

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