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... why they couldn’t”. The reader is lead to feel sorry and sad towards Josie as she is much poorer than most of the girls that attend her school, St Martha’s and is constantly harassed and made fun of by peers due to her Italian back ground. Josie is called racist names by peers at school making her want to hate the country she lives in, “you’re more than a wog if you know what I mean”. Josie is just a normal teenage girl, wants to go out with boys, while studying at school trying to get a good job. Josie believes that she has been raised in an environment where Italians do not belong with Australians and this leads to the reader believing that Josie is nieve with her beliefs. She shows the way in which she is nieve by when she goes out with Jacob Coote she expects him to wear a tie to impress her mother because of her culture being one of tidiness and class, “you wore a tie to the school dance”, “and you think I’m going to wear a tie to the movies”. The reader sees that Josie expects more out of Australians, expecting them to know how to present themselves in front of an Italians family. Due to this fact Josie has been seen as one way minded because not everyone in the novel was brought up it such a tight family and how are other people in the story to know about how Italian family’s act if she will not tell them. Josie may see that her life has been not as good as it could have been, but without having a father while growing has lead to her relying on her mother and having formed a great relationship with her. The reader is positioned to think that Josie has not had life so bad, but merely self-pities herself, making it worse that it really is. Growing up without Josie’s father was probably better than it would have been growing up with him, as like in her mothers same situation she was despised and hated, which could have happened to Josie with her father, “both you and your Mamma paid”. Josie forms a great relationship with her father towards the end of the novel and shows that her life started to work out for the best. The reader is positioned to feel happiness towards Josie as she finally has a father she can really on and this is shown by the way he gets to know her and treat her, “I’ve been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi”. Throughout the novel Josie grows as a character and becomes maturer, by beginning to understand that life is what it is and just take it as it comes. She shows this attit...