Looking For Alibrandi Analysis of Fictional Text Influences on Society
Throughout Melina Marchetta’s novel Looking For Alibrandi there is a definite monitoring of development of the central character Josephine Alibrandi and the way she handles typical issues that confront average teenage Australians. Melina depicts Josephine as a normal Australian/Italian teenager who is faced with the same difficulties and problems that are faced by the average youths in an Australian society, and similar societies to that of the Australian. ... Consequently Josie as a character has the power to inspire and influence a society and their outlook on situations. ... Hence, by recapping on Josie’s mistakes within her illustrated Australian society, the reader can react with the knowledge gained from her accounts and better their situation by responding how Josie would/should have. Subsequently shaping society to take action to occurrences similar to those presented in Melina Marchetta’s novel Looking For Alibrandi in a more knowledgeable fashion. ... She has plenty of different views and attitudes presented in the text, including her very strong opinion towards racism. The Australian society illustrated in Looking For Alibrandi, not unlike the Australian society of today, was filled with multiculturalism. ... Despite Josie handling the situation in a most extreme fashion – Josie hitting Carly in the face, injuring her nose, and putting herself in quite a predicament forcing her father to be contacted at work – Josie’s self respect is largely existent and by her mistakes the reader can be taught about our multicultural society and how to act in a positive way in relation to such instances of racism.