TEXT 2 - 'Looking for Alibrandi' by Melina Marchetta (novel) Melina Marchetta's novel 'Looking for Alibrandi' is about a teenage girl Josephine's growth to freedom through interaction of the women of the three generations of Alibrandi's - Katia Alibrandi, Christina Alibrandi and herself. Further changes come about in Josephine through interaction with other characters, which include, her father, her boyfriend, her suicidal friend, her girlfriends and her school principle. Josephine Alibrandi, a catholic girl, narrates the …showed first 75 words of 796 total…

…showed last 75 words of 796 total…retains her heritage unlike John who couldn't. The use of catalyst events places the view that change is brought about purely by external events in someone's life. 'Looking for Alibrandi' has the closest ideas to my experience of the world. The most obvious one being that I am also seventeen years old, going through my HSC and experiencing emotional changes in my life. The view of 'changing self' presented in this text is mainly positive.