In Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi Josephine realises that things tend not to turn out how you would like them to; as a result, she aims to discover her emancipation throughout the novel. Josie discovers and hesitates the stereotype binding terms subject to her culture such as“Wog”, Josie through her emancipation accepts and dominates her culture. Josephine first tries hiding and avoiding her culture only to be influenced by family expectations. Therefore Josie accepted her culture on her terms. Josephine seems to be lost in a world of relationships; the analyser sees this through the attempt at “marrying” John Barton. As Well as the meeting and rejecting of her father. “That day had finally come”- Page 261, these factors align with …show more content…
Josephine not being able to come to conclusions on what she wants in all categories in her life. When reading Looking for Alibrandi by Marchetta, the reader sees and recognise the self-awareness of Josephine towards her culture and appearance. There is clear indication of Josie being embarrassed with a sense of pride; this is indicated when Carly taunts Josephine her for being Italian “Wog”. The term Wog resembles a lower working class person, this provokes Josie and puts it upon herself to defend her identity. The reader sees the impact placed upon Josephine by society, only when she acknowledges her culture she lifts off her restraints as a "free" person. When Josephine hides her culture she struggles with family and peers encounters; this concerns Josie oh her parents' impressions of the people whom she is affiliated with.
The reader feels and somewhat relates towards the expectations influenced by her family, this not only puts pressure on Josie but also makes her question her eligibility towards others. “Like all tomato days we had spaghetti that night. Made by our own hands. A tradition that we’ll never let go. A tradition that I will probably never let go either, simply because like religion, culture is nailed into you so deep you can't escape it. No matter how far you run.” (p. 174) However, even though these factors add up Josephine still does stick up for her culture. “ ’Forget it, Josephine. We’ll both be happier. I can associate with my own kind and you won’t have to put up with some cultureless Aussie with no heart and soul.’ ” [Jacob to Josie] (p. 208). These quotes help the reader understand and portray Marchetta's image of Josephine's acceptance towards Italian culture, the quotes align with the values of Joesaphine as a youth. Only when Joesaphine accepts and lowers the family expectations that she is subject to she will finally be …show more content…
happy. Marchetta develops the image of Josephine by creating an endless stream of relationships throughout the novel; we see this through the relationships of John Barton, Jacob Coote and Micheal Andretti.
Josie seemingly ignores the fact surrounding that she cannot make her individual decisions regarding relationships, Josephine attempts to make lifelong commitments. “ ‘Tell me, what comes first? What other people think of your family, or love?’ ” [Christina to Josie] (p. 196) “ ‘Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.’ ” [Christina to Josie] (p. 198) These quotes show the encouragement not to get into love by relating to the disappointment, Josie is also encouraged to put her family before love. These love streams come and go, but the irresponsible Josephine decides to go on her terms on deciding the path that she would wish to follow without any
aid. When analysing Marchetta's Looking for Alibrandi the audience understands the restraints placed on Joesaphine throughout the story, through the text we see how Josie recognises and finds her emancipation from events such as John Barton's death. “I remembered when we spoke about our emancipation. The horror is that he had to die to achieve his. The beauty is that I’m living to achieve mine.” (p. 240) Even though that culture is separating society, in the story we see how Josie fits into a community but even though social class separates them.
I think Antonia would really believe in this. I think Antonia is more about trying to be happy and really forcing the issue and Jim just does what he does and just hopes for the best. Thats why I don’t really think that Antonia would fully agree with Jim’s statement. I think Antonia would agree that sometimes happiness is easy but i think Jim is also implying is that you can’t just force it or fake the happiness. Antonia always tried maybe too hard to be happy and one example is when she married Larry Donovan. I don’t think that Antonia thought about it long and hard even though Larry was known to be a pro Ladies man and people were telling her. It basically seems like she chose Larry in a fast attempt to be happy and basically it just ended badly and made her unhappy for a long period of time. Jim on the other hand took decisions with more caution and didn't try to rush or prolong happiness and just lived life slowly one step at a time. Also it almost feels like Jim really learned to appreciate happiness when it came and just basked in its warmth well like in his college moments in Lincoln with Gaston Cleric. In those moments Jim was just naturally happy in that state of learning and growth. Jim in the end did find happiness and so did Antonia which was a wonderful thing to read in the
Jean Thompson’s short story, All Shall Love Me and Despair shows that proves that the feeling of love makes people compromise even if it can be harmful to themselves. When one finds them self constantly questioning every action they do when around a specific person, they may want to reconsider their relationship with that person. I believe this because one should be able to be comfortable, and them self, especially around those that they love. Annie and Scout are a couple who loves each other, but Annie second guesses most of her actions around Scout.
As the book progresses she tends to get along with her father more and then eventually over time they have a close bond. At the start of the book he is first mentioned on page 15 when a particular Michael Andretti is standing in the room next to them. Josephine bases the relationship with her dad upon what her mum feels about him, she eavesdropped on a conversation where he was explaining how he didn’t want to be apart of her life anymore and that if money was a problem that her mother be reimbursed for his absence. She on page 70, she calls him by his public title not as father or dad but clearly because he is a stranger in her life and she does not want him to be apart of her. The authors intentions were to use language to describe the relationship between her father and herself, showing that Things soon change as the book progresses and Josie is forced to call in her father to help her with a situation where she smacked a girl in the face with a textbook because the victim’s father was attempting to sue Josie. After that incident the relationship quickly starts to grow between Josie and
Through the protagonist, Josie the audiences learn that being an illegitimate and meeting one’s parent is hard to tackle but that feeling will eventually change once the individual has known their parent. “How dare you think that I want to be in your life! I don’t want you anywhere near us, especially my mother.” is the dialogue that Josie has told Michael when they had their first conversation.
One must take careful consideration before acting because the aftermath can lead to a chain of events whose consequences can be disastrous. Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints is an excellent example of how the consequences of a persons actions can affect everyone around them, including themselves. First, Cristina makes several choices throughout the novel that not only reflect her thoughtlessness, but her inability to see that it affects people beyond herself. The repercussions of Cristina’s actions demonstrates that she does not take notice that her actions are affecting others. Cristina’s value system is distorted as she is not looking at what is best for her child but rather what is feeling good to her right now. Cristina Innocente is a selfish,
The writer incorporates a lot of repeated names for the characters which made it difficult to distinguish the certain characters a different given times and their connection to Josie in the script. For example, in the beginning, the writer shows Josie in a soon to be ended relationship with
Josie's father has had very little immediate impact on her life thus far. When her father did arrive in back in Sydney Josie is naturally angry at him. This is a totally acceptable form of behaviour considering the circumstance, but her anger not only stems from her own personal experience. Josie had to grow up knowing that her father had abandoed her and her mother, pushing her Christina into being a single parent bringing up her child alone.
Josie feels as if her traditions will only give her more problems. “She wants to know why other Italian girls have Italian boyfriends and I don’t. If I want to go out with Australians, she objects. ‘What do they know about culture?’ she asks. ‘Do they understand the way we live?’”Nonna wants Josie to marry an Italian man in the future, but she herself had an affair with an Australian when she was young. She decides to hide the guilt and take the frustrations out on Christina and Josie by saying that “a daughter’s behaviour always reflects on how a good mother is.”. Josie’s relationship with Jacob lets her understand how relaxed the Australian culture is. Josie doesn’t want Jacob to meet her parents as she knows that they won’t accept him as he lives “without religion and culture.”, but it has let Josie understand that Australia is a multicultural country and that living there with another background does not make you
Josie feels extreme guilt after reading the note knowing that she could have potentially prevented his death. But, his death also makes her hit a realization that she is not the only one with problems and this is an important lesson in her journey of growing up. The way things progress, how relationships develop and the steps that she takes to grow up all happen through the things that Josephine encounters.
It was always difficult for Italian females ever since they moved to Australia because they were new. Josephine’s grandmother told her a story about when she first moved to Australia with her husband. She explained to Josephine that when she first moved to Australia her husband was always at work and never around to help or comfort her but she but a nice man by the name of Marcus Sandford who was there to do what he could not. Marcus helped her with all the things she needed and comforted her when she needed it but because she was Italian and Marcus was Australian so when people found out about those two they started to talk. This kind of thing happens during the book with Josephine and a boy named Jacob Coote. Josephine became close to Jacob Coote throughout the book and ended up dating but they were two completely different people. Jacob is Australian, Josephine is Italian, Jacob dressed all daggy, Josephine dressed nice and they argued all the time. At times when they argued Jacob would bring up the fact that she was ethnic and begin being racist towards her. No matter how much the two of them fought and no matter how angry Josephine got at Jacob, her feelings didn’t die down. Josephine and Jacob didn’t stay together; they broke up towards the end of the book after the terrible incident of John Bartons death.
Nina is one of the main characters in this movie and Josie is her best friend. A scene where their friendship is characterized is one where Josie and Nina are riding in a cab. Josie gets upset with Nina (briefly) when she finds out that Nina has had sex with Darius (the other main character) on the first night they went out. The haste in which they have had sex does not bother her as much as the fact that Nina does not tell her. This example is a direct correlation to one of the themes of women?s friendship that intimacy is cultivated through dialogue. This suggest that women build closeness in their friendships dialogue and by Nina not telling, it breaks the code of intimacy in a way. The establishment of a new relationship something like this that is an important part of Nina?s life, and excluding Josie from that is what is troubling her. Even though I do not believe that to be true in this example, that can be argued as a reason Nina doesn?t share.
Before this scene, John and Josie had written letters to each other of their thoughts, with John’s turning out to be a suicide note: “If I could be anything other than what I am, I'd want it tomorrow. If I could be what my father wants me to be, then maybe I'd sty for that too. But if I could be what you want me to be, i would stay. But I am what I am and all I want is freedom.” This clearly shows the theme of belonging and the extreme consequences of youth not feeling like they belong.
The first paragraph evokes the normal and typical structure of the Italian-American immigrant family in this era. In the Vitale family, everyone has their own role. The father, Giovanni Vitale, has the duty of working long hours to provide for his family. The mother, Lisa, has the role of a homemaker, making dinner for the family, and takin...
In the novel Sula, there were other important characters besides Sula. The character in this book I would like to focus on most is Eva Peace. Eva is a woman who has a disability but remains strong, and this will be the focus of this paper since it wasn’t focused on so much in the book.
The novel Sula by Toni Morrison exemplifies the new feminist literature described by Helene Cixous in "The Laugh of the Medusa" because of the final portrayal of the two main characters Nel and Sula. However, it is clear throughout the novel that both Cixous's and Gilbert and Gubar's descriptions of women characters are evident within this novel. The traditional submissive woman figure paradoxically is set against the new woman throughout the novel. It is unclear whether the reader should love or despise Sula for her independence until the very last scene. Although both the perspectives of Cixous and Gilbert/Gubar are evident within the text, ultimately it is the friendship of the two women that prevails and is deemed most important. This prevailing celebration of womanhood in all of its dualistic and mysterious aspects is exactly what Cixous pushes women writers to attempt.