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Relationships In Looking For Alibrandi By Melina Marchetta

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Over the course ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ by Melina Marchetta, Josie Alibrandi’s relationships with Micheal Andretti, John Barton and Nonna Katia evolve in positive and negative ways as she discovers personal stories and secrets about them individually. Josie and Micheal’s relationship improves in a positive way because they begin as strangers and slowly their Father and Daughter relationship strengthens. During the course of the novel, Josie becomes close to a boy her age named John Barton from a completely different world to her and discovers that nothing is black and white. At the beginning of this novel, Josie describes Nonna Katia as annoying. However, as the story progresses she begins to feel sympathy and empathy for her. …show more content…

Because of how Nonna Katia treats her daughter, it caused a grudge to be formed between her and her granddaughter. Despite Josie’s dislike of her Nonna, she still was forced to go to Nonna Katia’s house every afternoon after school and would repeatedly be offered food “I was force-fed when I arrived. Force-fed like every afternoon of my life”- page 34. However when Josie sleeps over at Nonna Katia’s house, she hears about her Grandmother’s life before she was forced to migrate to Australia and how it impacted her personally because she never saw her family in Italy afterwards. After telling Josie personal stories, Josie feels as if she connected with her Grandmother deeply that night. Although Josie gains knowledge of a secret that Nonna Katia hid, it was about a man named Marcus Stanford that Nonna supposedly gained feelings for while being married to Christina’s Father. Josie becomes skeptical and asks her Nonna “Were you in love with him?” Josie asked. “Don’t be silly, Jozzie. I was married.”-page 199. Despite Nonna Katia refusing the accusation, it is later revealed that she had sexual relations with Marcus Stanford while being married. This angers Josie because of the hypocrisy that her Nonna displayed towards her daughter for 17 years because she was involved in sexual relations before marriage when however Nonna Katia had done and hidden much worse. Towards the end of the novel Josie begins to gain sympathy for her Grandma’s side of the story when she learns that her Nonna was in a abusive marriage and seeked escape with the man she loved. Overall, Josie’s relationship with her Grandmother dramatically improved as she began to understand and learn about the problems her Nonna had to

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