Looking For Alibrandi Book Review Essay

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‘Looking for Alibrandi’ In the novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’, written by Melina Marchetta, it is shown that our destiny is not entirely in our own hands. Other people can completely change our lives. Sometimes our Destiny can be in our own hands, and we make our own decisions and are responsible for the outcome of those decisions. Josephine Alibrandi is in her final year at St Martha’s trying to complete her HSC. Josie encounters many situations that she has to go through, such as meeting her father. Josephine Alibrandi’s path is paved by her mother and nonna, Christina and Katia Alibrandi. Throughout ‘Looking for Alibrandi’, Josephine talks of wanting to achieve her emancipation. 'I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself. Not as an Australian and not as an Italian and not as an in-between. I'll run to be emancipated.’ Josie wants to be free and make her…show more content…
John Barton believed that he was destined to be a politician. He faces a lot of pressure from his Father. Despite all the pressure he had he was always thinking of ways to get out of his deadlock. Eventually he came to the conclusion that the only way to achieve emancipation was to take his own life. ‘If I could be anything other than what I am, I would be tomorrow. If I could be what my father wants me to be, maybe I could stay for that too. If I could be what you want me to be, I’d want to stay. But I am what I am, and all I want is freedom.’ Josie was devastated when she had found out that John Barton had commit suicide. She believed that he had no reason to kill himself, that he had everything he ever needed. ‘How dare he kill himself when he’s never had any worries? He’s not a wog. People don’t get offended when they see him and his friends. He had wealth and breeding… yet he killed himself. How could somebody with so much going for him do

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