Growing up is complex, especially in a society with different cultural background. This is the major issue the novel “Looking for Alibrandi” discusses. A realistic view through the eyes of a seventeen-year old Italian girl, Josephine is presented. Josephine’s like many teenagers that have learned from their mistakes. This is the long road that everybody meets while growing up.
Learning to become an adult has many different responsibilities and every teenager has to deal with these issues. Once they pass a certain age different responsibilities have to be dealt with. Taking care of yourself is necessary before you can begin to help others. Most teenagers have to know what they want. In reference to “Looking for Alibrandi” Josephine had trouble taking her responsibilities seriously. Either being a school captain for example, on school sports day Josephine was supposed to look after a group of students but instead went to the city with her friends. Her goal in life was to become a lawyer and after getting a scholarship she tried everything to get good marks. However she did not know how to be mature in front of adults. She kept proving that she was immature by the way she acted with her parents, Sister Gregory, grandmother and her boyfriend. By the end of the novel Josephine reflects on the way she has acted throughout the year and why she has acted that way.
The relationships within a family influence the way a young person grows up. Children who grow up without either parent will lack part of their growing up.
For instance a male growing up without a father misses out on male companionship. Without a mother he will lack a part of his caring side. On the other hand a daughter growing up without her mother will miss the neutering and caring side, basically a mothers love. If she where to grow up without a father she would have a confusing time trying to relate to most men and the protection of a father around.
In Josephine Alibrandi’s case she never knew what it was like to have a father around. In some parts of the novel she recounts the time when she felt he was needed most.
There is the conflict between the Italian cultural traditions and values compared to the Australian way of life. Growing up can be difficult and confusing trying to adapt from one culture to another.
Melina Marchetta, the author of the novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ signifies the idea that the way people create meaning influences their perspectives and the perspective of others. The novel has an in depth look at the issues and the problems faced by the teenagers today which the main purpose is to increase the knowledge on “changing perspective”. Marchetta uses various narrative techniques such as dialogue, tone, and first person narrative to verify the deep understanding on how and why perspective changes over time.
Iliana Roman was a self-made woman. She wrote the essay “First Job”. She was a young single mother when she started working. She tells us how she valued hard work, of how she used work experience as a way of education. She then went to cosmetology school to learn fashion. Afterwards she used past experiences -from both work and school- to open her own hair salon. She now is planning on going back to school for real-estate, and she sees herself as a role model to her sons and the young girls living around her.
Josies aspirations reach much farther than that of her families ambitions for her life. It is at this point in time where a classic example of culture clash begins. Josie feels the need to rebel against the stero-typical female in an Italian culture. This determination stems from her education and desire to step away from her Italian life and responsibilities, breaking away not only from her family and their narrow mindedness but also the entire Italian culture. This is a major leap for Josie who aspires to be the first Alibrandi female to take control of her life. This motivation of freedom is strong in Josie and her rebellious ways demonstrate this.
The Australian lifestyle that Josephine is currently experiencing causes her to reject her Italian heritage. She finds it difficult to adapt to her heritage as it is different to the one she is currently living in. She doesn’t want the Italian to clash with the Australian culture as she reckons she won’t
Looking for Alibrandi is a novel in which reflects and comments to a majority of the social issues occurring in most communities around the world. The novel introduces the main character, Josephine Alibrandi as an intelligent and capable woman who is an Australian of Italian descent. Due to her background, she undergoes social issues such as experiencing stereotypes and social statuses.
There are currently 150 million Afro-descendants in Latin America who make up nearly 30 percent of the region’s population (Congressional Research Service, 2005). Out of the fifteen Latin American nations that have recently adapted some sort of multicultural reform, only three give recognize Afro-Latino communities and give them the same rights as indigenous groups (Hooker, 2005). Indigenous groups are more successful than afro-descendent groups in gaining collective rights and development aid from international NGO’s. Collective rights important because are closely related to land rights and can become a tool to fight descrimination .I will attempt to uncover the causes for the discrepancy. This study relies heavily on ethnographic research on post-colonial ideas of race in Latin America and I will attempt to connect race and power structures in environmental decision-making by interviews with national decision-makers, NGO representatives and both black and indigenous communities .
Dickinson 's poem uses poetic devices of personification to represent death, she represents death as if it were a living being. Dickinson 's capitalization of the word “DEATH”, causes us to see death as a name, in turn it becomes noun, a person, and a being, rather than what it truly is, which is the culminating even of human life. The most notable use of this, is seen in the very first few lines of the poem when Dickinson says “Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me”. In her poem Dickinson makes death her companion, as it is the person who is accompanying her to her grave. She states that death kindly stopped for her and she even goes as far as to give death the human ability to stop and pick her up. The occasion of death through Dickinson use of personification makes it seem like an interaction between two living beings and as a result the poem takes on a thoughtful and light hearted tone. The humanization of death makes the experience more acceptable and less strange, death takes on a known, familiar, recognizable form which in turn makes the experience more relatable. As the poem
In the biography, the narrator writes about his childhood life, and how he tries to live up to his dad who he never met. In theory, mothers and fathers are very essential in child development. Mothers are there to nature and provide for a child; while fathers are there to give guidance and be a role model. There are two kinds of
For starters, many believe that race does not impact the social mobility of the individual, who simply needs to work hard for what they want. From my own personal experiences, I can state that Latin Americans truly uphold this ideal. They are genuinely convinced that social mobility in Latin America is more possible than it would be here, given the fact that race is not as big of deal over there as it is here. In the United States, racialized social structures have created a racial hierarchy that one has to adhere
It has been centuries since slavery ended across Latin America yet racial issues continue to plague these countries. Since manumission, the concept of race has evolved through the meaning societies have given it. Countries have used and continue to use the idea of race as a way to stratify their societies through racial hierarchies. Each country has taken on its own definition of race in terms of blackness, whiteness, and everything in between. These types of labels perpetuate racism and subject People of Color to discrimination, marginalization, and inequalities across society. It is crucial to identify the origins of race and racism, how the term has evolved, and the role race plays in societies across the Latin American countries, especially
For me a father’s role to me is a little more important to a child, having a father teaches the girl that she deserves love and respect, protection, attention, strong self-esteem etc. so they know what to expect from their future relationships. The boy needs a father figure because it teaches him right from wrong, how to be a man, how to provide for his family, how to respect a woman etc. In this generation now, absent fathers is the most abused social problem. When a father is alive and he neglects to care or acknowledge you, is what is being abused. Mothers and fathers parent different, mothers are affectionate, emotional, and enforce safety of their children. Fathers are more of the disciplinarians, they enforce success, and a father figure is more
Life course theory has five basic concepts they 're cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points. These concepts are used to analyze people 's social, structural and cultural standpoints. And with the knowledge of these five basic concepts they help me understand myself as a person who didn 't commit crime compare to my peers who I met and reconnect with who did. Sadly they end up being unhappy in their lives due to the crimes they committed and troubles they caused in their lifetime. Necessarily they weren 't bad people, but like the theory says crimes can be affect due to circumstances of within structural, social, and cultural standpoint during their lifetime, which may also be the cause of their choices. One example of this is if a person would to resort to stealing through life events such as a father who stole in front of them as a child, they will then learn that behavior. The life course perspective takes a look at things on more macro level perspective from social aspect such as family life at home, bad neighborhoods, and lack of income. What prevent me from committing any crimes is that I had a good family relationship with my parents and sibling, so in other words my lfie course perspective or cohort was rather healthy compare to my peers. Through these example the assumptions can be made that social
In depth analysis has revealed the structure of people and who they grow up to be. Whether the parenting style is prosperous or poor, it has significant impacts on how one sees the world, how one sees themself and has influence on one's levels of achievement throughout a lifetime. Until the child can recognize their own ability and goals, parenting style is the largest determining factor in the child's success in social and academic circumstances. Children are the final product, or a reflection of culture and a family's values. No matter what events or people cause turmoil in a child's life, the true impact of the negative outside forces lays in the parents hands. If the child is raised correctly, negativity will not take a toll on them as opposed to a child raised in a 'broken home.'
Attachment theory is a psychological model that describes the dynamics of interpersonal relationships. The most critical point of attachment theory is that a child needs at least one primary caregiver relationship for the child’s healthy social and emotional development. Understanding attachment theory is critical with this research because it guides how early experiences can impact on behavioural and emotional development in adolescence and adulthood. The way a child understands themselves, how they cope with stressful situation, developing intimate and romantic relationships, are all shaped by the attachment style that child developed with their very first
There are three stages of life that are presented very well in the poem “Because I could not stop for Death.” According to Dickinson the first stage of life is “We passed the school, where Children strove” (Dickinson 219). This means that the children are still young, innocent and have yet to mature. The second stage that describes the circle of life presented by Dickinson is “We passed the Field of Gazing Grain-“ (Dickinson 219). This presents the “grains” as humans who are maturing and are now in the presence of adulthood. The last stage of life presented is “We passed the Setting Sun-“ (Dickinson 219). As the sun sets it disappears and the moon is shining along with the stars, just like that, when the death occurs a person disappears and becomes one of the stars and starts shining from above as they have gone to heaven. This can also be interconnected with religion, as in many cultures it is believed that when a person dies, they become one of the stars and shine down upon us, watching us like a guardian angel. The people who have reached darkness is not standing next to god in heaven as they have reached the end of their life cycle. Humans forget that slowly but gradually they are maturing and before it is noticed death is at our doorstep, and Dickinson predicts this in her