Looking for Alibrandi – Issues and Expectations

The four issues that I choose were family, fitting in at school, life after school and suicide. I choose these events because they are ones that effect me and people I know

FAMILY AND FREEDOM
Josie and her mother have a pretty good relationship. It is a typical mother daughter relationship. One minute they love each other and the next minute they’ll be screeching at each other about stupid little things

Her mother is a secretary and translator for a few doctors in Leichhardt. This is a suburb very close to where Josie’s grandma lives. This means that Josie has to go straight from school to her Nonna’s house and wait for her mum to come pick her up. She really hates this and really gets on her nerves. She thinks that all the best looking guys take the bus to Glebe where she lives while the worst take the bus to where her grandma lives.

If she goes straight home she can play her music full volume but when at her grandmas it is Mario Lanza’s greatest hits.

Josie’s m...