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"For never was a story of more woe than that if Juliet and her Romeo". Baz Luhrman's interpretation of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' has lived up to this quote. Juliet struggles with her young feelings and ingenuine love. She goes through a process of transforming to a immature girl to a desp

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"It's too rash, too unadvised". In the beginning of Rome and Juliet by Baz Luhrmann this was Juliet's attitude towards love. However, when she faces the challenge of being forced to marry Paris, after she had covertly married Romeo, Juliet's provision changes drastically from one of innocence and childishness to that of despair and irrationality.

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A challenge that Romeo faced in the Shakespearian film Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann was when he killed Tybalt. This caused Romeo to face many challenges as he had just killed his only new wife ancestor.

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A challenge that Juliet faced in the movie Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Lurhman was that she fell in love with Romeo but he was in the Montague's which is her family's enemies This caused a big challenge for them as they loved each other but weren't allowed to see each other.

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The purpose of the film 'Romeo and Juliet' directed by Baz Luhrmann is to display fate as one of the most vital challenge.

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A common challenge for children is being able to understand and develop their identity. Melina Marchetta has shown this in the novel Looking for Alibrandi through the character of Josie. Throughout the book Josie struggles with what her identity is, not really sure where or how she fits in. This discovering of identity which Melina has used as a common theme throughout the novel shows us how Josie changes due to the journey of finding herself. Josie becomes more settled and accepting of her heritage. But this also shows how worrying about what other people think can hinder the discovery of your identity.

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Josie Alibrandi struggled with accepting and embracing her identity as an Italian Australian throughout the novel 'Looking for Alibrandi' be Melina Marchetta. She does not understand the importance of her culture and finds it difficult to embrace it. Through the duration of the novel, Josie grows up, becomes a better person and learns that she cannot change who she is and she is better of to embrace her identity as an Australian Italian, rather than hiding it.

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Josie experiences what most teenagers go through in the novel 'Looking for Alibrand' written by Melina Marchetta. Josie faces the challenge of not understanding her heritage and not being able to accept herself. Josie develops throughout the text as a person to become more understanding and more mature, changing her view on her heritage a begins to accept who she is.

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Josie Alibrandi is a main character from Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta, she faced many challenges. One challenge she faced was her father coming into her life. He had a massive effect on Josies everyday life, she had to overcome that challenge. Another significant challenge Josie was forced to face was dealing with Nonna Katias constant judgement.

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"I’ve suffered in my life, you know", Josie Alibrandi faced many challenges throughout the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. One of these challenges was accepting her identity as an Italian Australian instead of fighting it. Josie struggles to find herself as a young woman as people around her seem to undermine the confidence she has in herself. We see this throughut the novel as Josie is treated unfairly by some of the people at her school. She is also held to impossible standards by her Italian Nonna who is critical of Josie as she doesn't believe she behaves the way a young Italian woman should. However, as the novel progresses we soon see a change happening in Josie as she begins to listen to the suffering her Nonna had to go through when she left Italy. She realises that her Nonna experienced much more hardship and faced more challenges than Josie has. This leads Josie to respect her Nonna much more as she understands why she is so fond of her Italian culture. This helps Josie to be confident in herself and not worry about what others think about her culture and heritage. We see Josie change from being someone who denied their identity and did not want to embrace their culture to someone who's culture influences their identity which helps Josie to become a person she is proud to be.

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"A promise. You stay out of my life, i stay out of yours", this was Josie’s, a main character from Looking for Alibrandi, written by Melina Marchetta, initial thought of her father, Michel's arrival into her life. Josie doesn’t realize the importance a father figure in your life, and how a positive father-daughter relationship impact her life and maybe determine whether or not she develops into a strong, confident woman. Throughout the Novel Josie and her father became more open to the idea of a father-daughter relationship and continue to work on building there relationship. The relationship between Josie and her father Michel teaches us the importance of a father-daughter relationship and how the presence a father has in his daughters life can help shape her In a positive way.

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The novel 'Looking for Alibrandi' written by Melina Marchetta is an inspiring novel that helps readers to relate to the characters and feel more comfortable in their own skin. Throughout the text of 'Looking for Alibrandi', the relationship between Josephine and her father shape the text altogether. Marchetta utilises this relationship to encourage readers feel the same emotions and as Josie throughout the ups and downs of their sudden friendship, and to teach them the consequences of new friendships. She explores the negatives effects like lack of a father figure on a teenage girl like Josie but also gives hope to the reader as they bloom their relationship as father and daughter.

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Young people can face complicated challenges in life and through these challenges they can learn to change who they are and become better people. In the novel 'Looking for Alibrandi' by Melina Marchetta th is displayed with the main character of Josie that through her facing the death of John that she is not ready for her life to be over and wants to make the most of it. Before this challenge Josie was seen as a selfish and stubborn person and through facing the challenge she sees how her life could be and becomes a mature and confident person.

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Josephine Alibrandi faces many challenges throughout the text Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. One of the challenges Josie faced was that of trying to find her identity and understanding her heritage and where she came from.

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"I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself. Not as an Australian and not as an Italian and not as an in-between. I'll run to be emancipated", A quote by Josephine Alibrandi in the novel, 'Looking for Alibrandi' written by Melina Marchetta that seems to show she is not happy with her life or who she is. The title itself shows that somehow the main character might be lost and struggling with finding out who they really are. In the novel we are able to see numerous changes throughout Josie, many of which could be due to Josie's struggle with identity, culture and religion.

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"One day came. Because finally I understood." A quote said by an important Character, Josie from the novel Looking For Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. A Character who has faced many challenges due to her religion as an Italian, in a way she acts not how people want her to as an Australian. Controlled by not even her own religion but changed through the highs and lows into a religion where she can be herself as an Italian but also as an Australian.

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Throughout the novel Looking for Alibrandi, written by Melina Marchetta, a relationship that taught me how important communication is, and how a father daughter relationship is vital in your life, is Josie and Michael (her father). This relationship is very important as without it, we wouldn't have a clue about what happened to Josie's dad. Also we wouldn't have learnt about the importance of communication, and a father/daughter relationship is. The authors purpose of this relationship was to teach us about those two lessons, as it is very important in a normal life.

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In the novel looking for Alibrandi written by Melina Marchetta an important relationship is the relationship of Josie and Michael. The relationship of Josie and Michael taught me the importance of communication and how it is needed to have loving and caring relationships. Throughout the text the idea of communication shows us how vital it is to have a good relationship and how if you don't have good communication with other family members then your relationships won't be good.

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Baz Luhrmann directed a fantastic film called Romeo and Juliet. A challenge that a main character, Juliet faced was falling in love with Romeo but sadly for them both there families are enemies and feuding. Due to Juliet falling in love but not being able to see Romeo her character changes from being young and innocent to being rebellious.

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“I do not want to see her. I do not want to love her. I do not want a complication in my life.” ,  this is a quote from the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. From that moment her farther daughter relationship soon became a challenge for her as he had never been in her life before and she finds out he still doesn't want her to be in his life.

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A challenge that Josie confronts in the Novel Looking for Alibrandi, Written by Melina Marchetta, is not being able to perceptively understand her nonna.

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"I never want it to be anything but her and me and I'm angry that she's even thinking of letting anyone else in". This shows that Josie, in Looking For Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta, faces the challenge of another man coming into her mothers life.

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The purpose of the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta is to be-able to relate to Josies relationship with her Nonna, this relationship has taught me that even tho you might not always get along and fight there is always a way to get around it and become close and love each other.

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challenges can cause a change in a character and help build people for the future, this is shown in the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchette a character that changes due to a challenge they face is Josephine.

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"known to be a tragedy because of its bitter story ending in the deaths of the two lovers." This was only on of the many reactions to the great Shakespearian tragedy ,Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Lurhman .At the start of the movie we see

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"What do they know about culture", a quote from Josie of one of the many challenges that she continuously confronts throughout the novel Looking for Alibrandi, written by Melina Mrchetta.

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From the drastic change seen in Juliet after she faces the challenge of marrying Paris, Baz Luhrmann patently depicts the pressures that this challenge put on Juliet, who had already suffered many trials of decepetion and secrecy throughout the film. Juliet loses the innocence that any young teenager holds far too early in her life as she holds a gun to her head, despairing about her future, and the world finally sees truth in the statement "the course of true love never did run smooth".

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Marchetta has successfully convinced us that Josie has developed as a person positively to love her culture and herself.. With Marchetta showing us Josie's change she has implied that most people will develop and evolve to become more comfortable in their skin. As many people all over the world continuously face discrimination against their culture, it can cause them not love themselves as they are. Everybody is different and it takes time to finally feel happy with yourself.

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In the end the pressure of the two feuding family's proved to be too much to handle for Romeo and Juliet and they tragically took their lives. This could have been avoided if the two family's had cherished and welcomed the young love instead of looking down on it thinking it was a bad idea.

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We know that Josie has faced many challenges as a person, but through the experiences of being a different religion, living with people who judge you because you are different, we see Josie change and fight for who she is. Some people find it hard to fit in, but is it really easy for them to fit in when there are people who are judge them for who they are, and where they come from. We live in a society where people aren't ok with different religions in their country. Some countries way in dealing with it is to block them out, ignore them, try and change them. Don't we want to invite different culture into our world, or do we want to be a boring old forgotten place.

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As Josie changed throughout the text, we learned more about what it means to be comfortable with yourself and who you are. Josie changes from being someone who is not willing to accept her culture and identity to someone who embraces it. This change helps others to realise that you can't change the opinions other people have about you but you can change the way those opinions make you feel. Josie wanted to change who she was when she was at school as she knew people thought she didn't fit in however as she changed she realised that other people's opinions about you shouldn't matter and other people shouldn't make you want to change yourself. Only you can change yourself. This is what Josie Alibrandi showed us as she embraced her culture and heritage instead of ignoring it.

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Through Josie facing challenges it causes her to be shaped as a person.  Josie facing the challenge of John's death shows us that although as teenagers we may think that our life is horrible but through Josie facing this she learnt that her life is much better than she thinks . Josie saying “I know there is a lot that is bad with the world, but too many people are ready to give up on it" shows that through her facing this challenge she has become a better person. Through Marchetta displaying how Josie faces these challenges we can learn that challenges can shape us as people.

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The way that author, Melina Marchetta portrays Josie in 'Looking for Alibrandi' shows the reader that there is still raciam in the world and that this racism can cause people to dislike their culture but it is important to who you are. Josie's changes throughout the novel can lead the reader to the conclusion that yes, her culture is important, it's what is in her blood and in her heart, but no, she does not need to rely on her culture to be a good Australian-Italian woman, "It matters who I feel like I am."

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As Josie grows up and learns to embrace her culture, we learn from Marchetta that it is pointless trying to change your identity, and you should embrace your culture and who you are. Josie begins in the novel as someone who was ashamed of her culture and would have rather just fit in with the people around her, and changes by the end to someone who embraces her Italian heritage. Josie's change teaches the reader that you shouldn't be worried about what people think of you, because they most likely do not care as much as you think.

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Marchetta has convincingly portrayed the struggles that most people go through about their identity through the character of Josie. Though this text it is shows the importance of knowing your identity and not letting what other people think stop you from being you. A problem in society is that we think about what others think way too much and really the only person we need to please is ourselves.

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We now see that Josephine Alibrandi was a character in the novel looking for Alibrandi By Melina Marchette that changed due to a challenge. We are able to see that Due to Josie facing challenges she is discovering more about her self and her identity as shown by Marchette.

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we can see that Melina Marchetta has intelligently shown us the drastic change in Christina, nonna and Josie through Nonna and Josie's relationship that teaches us to put the past behind and get going no matter how bitter it may be. in general, they say that issues within family are often passed on to generations but novels such as 'looking for Alibrandi' shows us through the characters that we don't always have to use the problem against ourselves but to accept it and move on.

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During the novel Looking for Alibrandi written by Melina Marchetta we see the positive effect that communication has on Josie and Michaels relationship. This important lesson of communication teaches us how vital it is to communicate with people because if you don't then your relationship with that person will not be very good. The authors purpose of this lesson was to teach us the importance of communication in relationships especially when you are not very close with that person because it shows how effective it can be.

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Through the drastic changes of Josie throughout the text, we can clearly see that Josie is far more confident with this newfound identity and how her changed mindset has improved her understanding for her family.

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Juliet not being able to see Romeo since their families were feuding proved to be to much " A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life."

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"I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line." This message is not only related to Josie and her life, but also many people in this world. We are all unique and most of us are unsure of our identity. Our identity is not only who we are but our family and heritage as well.

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In conclusion, in the novel Looking for Alibrandi written by Melina Marchetta, an important relationship is Josie and Michael (her father). This relationship taught me how important communication is, especially when you're both going though a rough time. Also how important a father/daughter relationship is. Melina Marchetta's purpose of this relationship was to teach the reader these lessons, and to show that anyone can form a great connection with anyone. Many young people, often rely on their parents to do almost everything for them, but it is very hard when you only have one parent.

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It is clear that as Josie starts to mature, we see how she starts to embrace her identity, instead of trying to hide behind a facade.

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"As far as the Italians where concerned we didn't belong to them. And as far of the Australians where concerned we also weren't apart of them." This shows Josephine Alibrandi from Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta has faced the challenge of identity for her whole life. Josie faces the struggle of living in Sydney, Australia with an Italian background.
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Maybe one of the most fundamental parts of solving conflict is having the ability dismantle a problem and view it in a more objective light. Taking things personally is something our protagonist, Josie, almost can do in a heartbeat. In Melina Marchetta's 'Coming of age' novel, "Looking for Alibrandi" Josie must learn to accept Michael Andretti into her life. She learns that her emotions and pride is keeping her from what she's always ached for the most. A father.

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Josephine is a stubborn, closed off character who faces the challenge of letting a father back into her life. Her character changes due to this challenge as she learns to  accept her father and break down her walls. Throughout the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melissa Marchetta. She is shown to be afraid of letting people close because she is fearful that her father's past decision will occur again. This time she doesn't want to be the one hurting, therefore she doesn't attach herself to anything/anyone that may leave. People often portray a tough exterior even though behind the hard walls they are slowly breaking on the inside. Josie shows that nothing gets to her through her tough personality whereas on the inside is a little girl afraid of being hurt. Melissa shows this message throughout the novel and Josie is changing due to her fear of being hurt. This challenge proves to bring out Josie's true feelings giving you the ability to see the changes she overcomes through the novel

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"All relationships go through hell, real relationships get through it" this quote represents the relationship of Josie and her Father from the novel 'Looking for Alibrandi' and how their father and daughter relationship has problems at the beginning but they solve them towards the end. Their relationship taught me how it's easy to forgive a distant father by one little act of kindness. Another thing I learnt from their relationship was how close you can still be with your long lost father even though he came in a few years to late.

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"It matters who I feel like I am"

Most people face the challenge of accepting themselves for who they really are regardless of culture or past events which has affected them. In 'Looking for Alibrandi' written by Melina Marchetta, the character Josie faces the challenge of accepting her Italian culture and trying to fit in to her posh high school. Throughout the text, Josie goes experiences love, death and acceptance. These experiences allowed Josie to understand she should be proud of her Italian culture and doesn't need to try be someone else to fit in.

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Having strong relationships are vital during a persons teenage years as it helps to have someone to talk to when starting life outside of high school. Josephine's (Josie) close, loving, relationship with her mother Christina in the novel 'Looking for Alibrandi' by Melina Marchetta demonstrated how a one parent family runs. As the year was nearing the end, Josie's relationship with her mother really helped her to get through everything that happened during the year. This taught me that one parent relationships can be just as stable as any other.

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From the text Looking for Alibrandi written by Melina Marchetta, it shows how a person can be effected by an event or a challenge and can change as of

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Many people in society struggle and overcome challenges every day. We see this relates to how Josie faces the challenge of accepting her Sicilian background in the film Looking for Alibrandi directed by Melina Marchetta. Even through the use of the title we can see that she is trying to figure out her identity and she is lost in a world where she doesn't belong. We see her change throughout by accepting who she is and feeling pride to be apart of a culture.

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People often assume that when being in a family, conflict is non existent. In the novel Looking for Alibrandi, written by Melina Marchetta we see the reality of living in a single parent family and the clashes that come with it. We see how Josie deals with the situations by becoming a mature young adult from a childish teenager. Josie goes through many tough interrogations due to family arguments and overcomes them.

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As teenagers, throughout our lives we are faced with many challenges dealing with how we see ourselves, each challenge we face we change and grow to make a better version of our selves. We see in Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta, Josie is struggling with the challenge of culture. Throughout the text she changes by learning to accept who she is and ignore the impacts of what others have to think.

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“I don’t want to love her, I do not want a complication in my life” we see in this novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta that not all families members know or like each other we see in this text that a challenge Josie faces is meeting her father for the first time in 17 years and Micheal, her father didn't want to meet his daughter or put her in his life. Melina Marchetta helps us see that Josie experienced change in her seeing the importance of family members and how they can change your life in different ways.

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Relationships are extremely important and can get stronger when both are willing to understand mistakes and accept each other. Josie and Nonna have a very important relationship in the text and teach the reader how crucial it is to understand one's story and forgive them for their mistakes. We see their rocky relationship evolve into a strong healthy relationship throughout the novel as we are able to discover and learn more about the individuals, why their relationship is how it is and what has caused it to be like that. Everyone has a story and taking the time to communicate and share them can be very influential for others and can contribute to forming strong healthy relationships

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As young adults in the modern world it is often hard to accept ourselves for who we are and where we come from. In novel looking for Alibrandi by Melena Marcetta Josephine (Josie) Alibrandi struggles with  accepting herself and her culture. Due to this challenge Josie changes when she learns to embrace her culture rather than run from it this is seen when she says  “I’ll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself. Not as an Australian and not as an Italian and not as an in-between. I’ll run to be emancipated”

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We see Josie face the challenge of meeting her father for the first time in 17 years and letting him back into her life. Melina Marchetta helps us see Josie's experience of changing to realise the importance of her family and culture throughout the novel Looking For Alibrandi.

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A common challenge faced by teenagers in everyday life is the challenge of understanding their culture and heritage and accepting themselves while understanding where they fit in within the outer community. A character in the novel 'Looking for Alibrandi' written by Melina Marchetta who faces this challenge is Josie. Throughout the text Josie develops a better understanding of her culture and heritage which then allows her to mature with time and begin to accept herself.

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"No family is perfect. We argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times. But in the end family is family. The love will always be there." -unknown. The relationship between Josie and Christina shows a strong bond between family in the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetti. Throughout this relationship I was taught how there is conflict even in the strongest of relationships. I was also thought that family puts family above everything else no matter what.

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People can change after they have faced a challenge or have gone through a drastic event. Their points of views may change or they could change as a whole person. This is seen in the written text of Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. Josie faces the challenge of meeting her father for the first time in her whole life. As of meeting him she starts to become more mature and does not tend to judge people before getting to know them anymore.

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In Looking For Alibrandi, Josephine is faced with the challenge of trying to accept her identity. Throughout this challenge, Jossephine experiences a change in herself at the end of the novel as she became to accept her identity with pride and realised that no matter how much you try you can never escape from your identity as she said “It’s pride that I feel” 

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In Looking For Alibrandi, Josephine is faced with the challenge of trying to accept her identity. Throughout this challenge, Jossephine experiences a change in herself at the end of the novel as she became to accept her identity with pride and realised that no matter how much you try you can never escape from your identity as she said “It’s pride that I feel” 

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The purpose of novels like Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta is to show the reader that cultural differences can make it more challenging for an individual to find their identity. Throughout the novel we see the many challenges Josie Alibrandi has to face as a italian australian and how they lead her to making major changes in her life. Some include her accepting her italian culture and finding peace with her true identity.

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Marchetta shows us how Josie manages to accept her culture and where she is from and doesn't worry about being in between. Josie matures throughout the novel to come to these realizations on who she is.Authors purpose was to help others realize all teenagers go through a maturing stage to find out who they truly are. Looking for Alibrandi is a great novel for other teenagers who are trying to find out who they are.

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Thought the text Marchetti has shown me a strong relationship between and mother and daughter, and has changed my view on conflict. I now understand how conflict is a healthy part of life, and how family will accept you for your flaws and mistakes. My view on single parent families has also changed and i have learnt that the love shared in a single parent family is just as strong if not stronger than that in a two parent household.

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Melissa shows us that Josie's fear of accepting and forgiving her Dad had consumed her thoughts in every situation and relationship she was in. This shows us that our fear can restrict us from enjoying our life . As "the fear of being hurt will hurt you more than facing that fear and finding freedom". Consumed by the fear of being hurt and guarding herself from others getting too close was hurting Josie as she was letting it stop her from understanding her father and forming a bond. She had to forgive her father even though his actions were wrong, she had to accept and forgive to move on.That scared feeling was controlling her life and she needed to get back into control. "To forgive is to set that prisoner free and discover that prisoner was you".

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Marchetta has skilfully shown us how relationships in a family can evolve and have a positive outcome, despite feuds that were faced in the past. People inevitably have to face challenges and issues in life but the main challenge is being able to move on from those problems and have a positive outlook on life afterwards. We learn that grudges cannot be held and communication is key in forming a healthy relationship. If people were more positive and understanding, would everyone be able to get along?

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It was shown by Marchetta that Josie has accepted her culture and it teaches the audience that no matter where you come from you are always going to be yourself and you should be comfortable in you own skin. Why is it true that people don't feel confident to embrace their true culture in the teenage age gap?

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“I don’t want to love her, I do not want a complication in my life” This quote was used by Marchetta to possibly create awareness to society that not all people want the hassle that comes with raising children. This message was achieved in the novel as we see both sides of the relationship adapt. Do you want the hassle of children?

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"Everyone thins of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself". Facing challenges like meeting and building a relationship with your father after 17 can really change someones life. Looking For Alibrandi has shown me that you changing to show new identity and a new you can be beneficial to get through hard times. Realising importance about your family and culture can often happen in real life. The author has helped me to realise that there is more to life and that family and excepting who you are is essential to happiness.

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Marchetta shows us that in our society there are teenagers who go through about their own identity or culture. They may not be proud of who or what they are, but at the end of the day they have no choice but to accept their identity and culture and embrace it.

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Looking back at the text, Marchetta's intentions were clear; to show the reader what makes a healthy relationship. The author has successfully used Josie and Christina's relationship to show the reader that communication between two people is important in keeping a relationship healthy. It also shows that even if they argue lots at the end of the day they are always there for each other.

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Melina Marchetta used the challenge of Josie meeting her father for the first time to show the affect of maturity that it had made on Josie.This showed how people can get over obstacles and challenges and still come out at the other side, but they could be a slightly different person than before. " We don't grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges."

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Marchetta has successfully convinced us that Josie has developed as a person throughout the course of the text and has learnt to love and accept her culture and herself. By Marchetta showing this change in Josie she is implying that most people will take time to develop and become comfortable as their own person. As many people can face negativity surrounding their culture and heritage it can force them to not accept themselves as they are. Everybody is different and it will take different amounts of time for people to be happy in their own skin.

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A huge challenge like meeting your father after 17 years can effect your life and change it severely, Melina Marchetta has portrayed that at the beginning of Josie and her father, Micheals relationship that not all family members get along and it may take a while to do so.

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During the text Looking for Alibrandi Marchetta has convinced us that Josie has learned to embrace her culture and Italian background. The changes that Josie undergoes throughout the text also happen a lot in society with teenagers/young adults working out who they are as a person and discovering their identity.

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The author uses the character Josie to show that people who have different ethnicities may not feel proud of themselves if they are in a society where they are the minority. Josie

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Whether or not Josie's unconventional relationship with her father is applicable to our lives, we are still able to find truth in what really matters and where priorities stand in our own lives. For Josie, overcoming t