Changing Perspective

How have the texts you have studied this year shaped your understanding of change and changing perspective?

In your answer you must refer to your prescribed text, TWO texts from the prescribed stimulus booklet Changing and the listening stimulus material you have heard.

Throughout this year, I have studied multiple texts in relation to the Area of Study – Changing Perspective. All of these texts contain issue related to change and changing perspective, each text exploring it in a different way. Change is something which is part of our life the moment we are born and does not disappear until we die. Therefore it is important that we examine the following texts in order to fully comprehend its meaning.


“Looking for Alibrandi” by Melina Marchetta is very much based on the concept of family. The novel sees life through the eyes of a seventeen year old girl by the name of Josephine Alibrandi who is in her final year at a wealthy Catholic School having received a scholarship...