LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI BY MARLINA MARCHETTA

It is only through facing the challenges put before us that we grow in self-knowledge and self-identity.
In this essay I will be discussing this statement with references to the novel looking for Alibrandi.
I will be discussing the ways and why Josie changes her perspective about curtain people and curtain things.

At the start of the novel Josie’s view’s her nonna as a conformist and weak. This is due to her nonna sticking to the strict ‘Italian rules’ and trying to make Josie act like herself.
Josie viewed her nonna as rigid.
‘Maybe that’s what I disliked about Nonna. That she couldn’t accept things the way they were’ (pg 35).

This disliking of her Nonna made her resent the afternoons she was made to spend with her. Slowly Josie’s perspective changes through many remising discussions with her. Josie discovered that Nonna was not so rigid and had once been young and foolish. Josie’s perspective changes when her Nonna’s past are revealed to Josie and ...