Examples Of Josie In Looking For Alibrandi

Introduction:

Josephine Alibrandi has not exactly had the best of luck in terms of her relationships with others who are present with in her life. Examples of such can be seen strewn all throughout the pages in which display Josie’s life, whether it be; family, intimate or friend related relationships. Josie is extremely quick to judge and therefore begins to shut people out without giving them a chance. Due to this fact, she has issues trusting people enough to be considered as having a ‘close relationship with her.’ Nearing the end of the novel that Josie has matured quite significantly from the ages of just 17 to 18, with this she has learnt that there will be times in which people will disappoint and disvalue her, though it is just a part

‘I looked at him for the first time and at that moment every image I had of my father flew out the window’ (pg. 38). Josie held so much hatred against her father for the 17 years she had gone without him, to a point where the slightest show of tolerance towards him was completely out of the question. Thought tables began to turn once Michael a commitment to the daughter whom he loved very much, he came running to her defence at school when Josie was on the verge of expulsion. ‘…for a few minutes I knew how it felt waling alongside one’s father. It was a great feeling’ (pg. 90). Once this situation had played out, Josie had come to the realisation that just because someone had hurt or disappointed her once before, it does not define who they are as a human being because everyone has the ability to change. Josephine does not only learn to move on from something that has once troubled her in the past, instead to continue with life by giving someone a second chance to prove his or her worthiness especially throughout a family relationship like her and her

Josie dreaded spending time with her Nonna, though whilst weeks past and time spent with Nonna Katia became forced upon from Josie’s mother Christina, Josie realised that her Nonna was not all that bad. She began to gain a sense of trust, safety and security until one day this bond was completely shattered by a lie that Josie and her mother were living their entire lives without knowing. ‘Katia Alibrandi, Christina Alibrandi, Josephine Alibrandi. Our whole lives, just like our names, are lies’ (pg 218). Josie began to ponder and expose the fact that her Nonno Francesco was not indeed her Nonno, just as the entire Alibrandi family was lead to believe, but in fact it was Marcus Sanford. Though Josie did not mind, because by this point she had established her self well enough to know who she is a person regardless of her surname and lies she had been fed. ‘I’ve figured out that it doesn’t matter if I’m Josephine Andretti who was never an Alibrandi, who should have been a Sanford…’(pg. 261). Josie learns when an issue arises; it is up to your own decisions to determine how to move on from the situation at