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The Looking for Alibrandi Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.

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Josie feels that she will never be fully Josie has a complicated relationship with her grandmother Katia). Josie thinks Katia is too harsh to her mother (Christina) for what Christina did. Josie dislikes her grandmother eben though they both have a lot in common. They both had difficult times fitting into a new world where tradition was blurred. And they both knew too well what happened when they were the ones who blurred the rules of tradition. Love was a stranger to Josie until she got to know Jacob Coote. She didn't know what it meant to care for someone so much, At the start of the book we meet a girl who thinks that life is unfair and that society is the most difficult problem in life. But by the end of the book she has realised that society isn't quite as
accepted into Australia's image of their country. She feels like an outsider in her own school and that somethings will always be separated in life. Like 'middle class' and 'upper class', she finds that even though she has the brain to go to an 'upper class' school, in society the wealth and social status has

when they weren't actually related to her.

important, it only matters what she and the people closest to her think of her.

Josie realises this with us, she realises that there's no point fighting and complaining about life, because there are more important things to worry about and that the only things worth worrying about were along the journey. So by the end of the book Josie is focused on moving on and not straying behind whilst the rest of her life moves forward.
By Emma Fish

But when she met Jacob she felt a connection that you only really have with close family and friends.

I think that'love' is more important than most people think. It isn't just a relationship; it's a way of understanding and connecting with somebody with another way of life. This sort of understanding can help you in many ways. Often just the experience can give you a gateway into new thinking and better views of the different perspectives of life.

But by the end of Josie's last year of school, she had gotten to know her grandmother better. All of her grandmother's mistakes seemed to be insignificant from what her grandmother had gone through.
They finally understood each other and they became special friends, knowing things about each other that no one else could ever understand.

more to do with who you are.

But she finds out throughout her senior year that sometimes the conditions shift and bend. Allowing for Josie to be friends with people like John Barton and Jacob Coote, who are completely
different in both society and intelligence. Yet Josie finds that she fits in with both of them. So by the end of the book she has forgotten what she first felt about where she belonged, because she had found that it wasn't who her parents were, or where she lived that made her who she was. It was what she did and who she was to her friends and peers.

With her family, belonging was a bit different, because Josie clung to her Italian heritage, yet she resented how her family treated her mother and herself. She felt as if she were a stranger within her own kind. But by the end of the book she understood more about her family and its complications. Josie learnt that even with a strict tradition people make mistakes all the time and that it was always better to forgive than hold a
grudge.

There are many kinds of relationships in the book (eg. Family
relationships, friend relationships and boyfriend girlfriend relationships) Most of us have this in the real world but when you read about the problems that an Italian family have you can see what issues vary.Feeling out of place-

Josephine (Josie) feels cursed and has been told she is, she feels out of place wherever she goes. She feels like an outsider in the Italian community and in school where most of the students are white. She feels even more out of place because an enemy called her a wog.

Often people in the real world and not just books feel this way, outsiders. We always find something different about us or the people around us and use it against us or people to discriminate us or other people making us feel like the odd one out.

She is half Australian half Italian which makes it hard for her to fit fully in one place. Other than feeling out of place at school because of her background she also feels out of place for not being wealthy, like other families of students in the school.

Not only does Josie feel out of place for being Italian, her grandma (Katia) did when she moved to Australia when she was 17 with her husband that later died in the war. She hated Australia but knew it was for the best. No Australians would talk to her and she didn't know any English or anyone and
felt lonely. She only started to feel in place when she started to learn English and more Italians moved to Australia.

One thing that all relationships carry and have in common in the
book and even in the real world is drama; there is always a problem to be solved. Throughout the book her relationships with different people changes her way of thinking on different issues. Because of her relationships with family members she grows and learns to learn to accept her family and their
heritage she also learns to accept what her family went through in the past.

Other relationships such as friend relationships and boyfriend
and girlfriend relationships affect her social life and her "growing up decisions" Like her family, they also affect her way of thinking and her decisions but on different issues.

Displayed all throughout the book and in real life too is help. Just like the book family members, friends and even strangers can change someone's perspective on things or people. Just like how Marcus Sandford helped Katia Alibrandi (Nonna) after the loss of her parents and he was a complete Australian stranger.

Help is taking a confused, sad or lonely person and picking them up to lead them in the right direction, it can change someone's life and possibly inspiring them to help other people.

Like how Josephine, Christina (Mum) and Katia (Nonna) help each other out to make decisions and inspire each other to do great things. Even though they all have a strained relationship with each other they are always there to support one another and love each other whether they like it or not.

Help is also displayed when Michael Andretti (Josie's father that left her mum and only met Josie now when she's 17) comes into Josie's life and protects her from defending herself from a father and daughter after she broke a girl's nose for calling her a wog.

Written all over this book is emotions, emotions that we will have to face in life at some stage. This book covers all of them, sometimes it made me feel like crying and sometimes it made me feel like laughing.

As this book is a "Teen Drama" it goes through all of the feelings and experiences that Josie faces growing up. The bad emotions like when John Barton committed suicide and when Josie felt like an outsider was really heart breaking but when the goodtimes happened I really felt happy for her. For example when she felt proud to have her dad walking beside her in front of everyone I felt happy that she was happy and proud.Josies life is an emotional roller-coaster and everything that is thrown at her doesn't hit her that hard because she is a very strong young independent woman, but occasionally things do get to her and her emotions build up (good or bad) and she reacts often in a negative way.

Her emotions effect not only her but the people around her causing and creating problems, and also effecting her decisions to be made.
By Rona Lim

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https://www.gradesaver.com/looking-for-alibrandi/study-guide/themes

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Task: In groups, watch the scenes which have been allocated to you on the google doc. You are responsible for filling in the table.
Group 1:
Abbie, Hayden, Tho, Taniesha, Magdalia, Dilara
Group 2: Emma, Tristan, Logan, Eranthe, Rachel
Group 3: Leah, Liam, nhiJovan, Jade, Linh, Jemma
Group 4: Julie, Stefani, Nenad, Andrew, Chau, Nat

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Unit 3a Text Study 'Alibrandi' Oral Task

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The Cast Of "Looking For Alibrandi" Then Vs Now

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It's been 16 years since the iconic Aussie film hit our screens.

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Looking for Alibrandi