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Josie Alibrandi

By Clayton, Maddi and Kassidy.

JOSEPHINE ALIBRANDI

AGE- 17PLACE OF BIRTH- Sydney AustraliaPARENTS- Christina Alibrandi and Micheal Andretti.GENDER- Female.ADDRESS- Leichhardt, Sydney ,AustraliaItalian Australian.OCCUPATION- works at McDonald's and then at her Fathers work.

DREAMS..

-To go to Uni in Sydney to study Law.

-She dreams of being successful and of falling in love with someone with money of someone loving her and having two children one boy and one girl.

PERSONALITY..

- -Says what’s on her mind.- -Doesn’t hold back.- -Strong minded.- -Has a soft side.- -She is her culture.

EVENTS- Meets her Dad.- Gets a boyfriend.- One of her best friend dies.- Ivy and Josie become friends.- Builds better relationship with her

Nonna.- Realises that her Nonna’s life was

harder then her life.- Realises how much her Mum give up

and stood up for her.- Gets told her Nonno isn't really her

Nonno.- She finally understood who she is.

-BACKGROUND

- Josie is a third generation Australian Italian.- -She was raised by her mum and

didn’t know her father till she was 17.

- -Hated being illegitimate.- - Has a strong Italian culture.- - met her father for the first time

when she was 17.- Strong religion- Gets annoying and sick of her culture

but will never let it go.

QUOTES “ill run one day. Run for my life. to be

free and think for myself. Not as an Australian not as an Italian and not as an in betweener. Ill run to be emancipated. If society will let me.”

“I just sat there thinking back over the year and I realised that I was emancipated long ago. It wasn’t at one particular point, it was at several.”

“well im not sure whether everyone in this country will ever understand multiculturalism and that saddens me, because its as much a part of Australian life as football and meat pies.”

QUOTES “I've figured out that it doesn’t

matter whether im Josephine Andretti who was never an Alibrandi, who should have been a Sanford and may never be a Coote. It matters who I feel like I am- and I feel like Michael and Christina's daughter and Katia's granddaughter; Sera, Anna and Lees friend and Roberts cousin. You know, a wonderful thing happened to me when I reflected back on my year. ‘one day’ came. Because finally I understood.” pg. 261

By Jake, Sam and Lachlan

John Barton

John is the school captain of St Anthony

He is 17 years old

Wants to study law with Josie

He is an Atheist (pg 135)

He doesn’t know what he wants to do when he is grown up, “But I don’t know what I want to be” (pg 133), “I don’t know what I want out of my life” (pg 47)

He is popular and good looking

All About John

He is well educated

His father and grandfather were politicians, “My father is a …. minister it ever had.” (pg. 45)

His mother is a medical secretary at Leichhardt

His family is rich

Background

Poison Ivy.

Characteristics of Ivy

Blue eyes

Blonde hair

School Captain

Ivy has more in common with Josie than what she thinks she has.

Grew up with John Barton

Wasn’t actually voted school captain.

Name: Ivy LloydAge:17place of birth: Near Sydneydreams/aspirations: To be the best she can and to always be the best at everything and beat Josie.Feelings: scared, worried, disappointed in john for killing himself.

Quotes form Ivy…

‘I’m only dux

because I didn’t

want you to be’ page 241

‘’ I feel lost without…John as a friend. I always felt he was going to be there pulling me up when I was down.” 242

“I am a bit scared, you know. My father really wants me to be a doctor.” 241“It's not your fault , Josie. Not

yours or mine. It was john. I feel like crying because people always remember the way he died and not the way he lived.’’ 242

“ I worked harder because of you. You got on my nerves a lot.” page 241

Jacob Coote

Basic Infomation

Age- 18Gender- MaleParents- Mr. Coote, Dad’s girlfriends Eileen, Mother died of cancer.Hometown- RedfernEthnic Background- AustralianReligion- AtheistOccupation- Mechanic

Hopes and Dreams

Jacob aspired to be a professional mechanic. When Jacob and Josie were going out, they had talked about opening up a mechanic store. Jacob would do all the practical work. Josie would do the book work and legal work.

Quotes

‘And the Aussie kids with the piece of meat between their bread probably envied you.’ pg. 150‘I might not be a great university scholar, but I’m good with my hands. You’re different. You’re good with your head.’ pg. 169

Quotes

‘I don’t want to talk about anything after. What is this, Josie? What have you been doing for the last couple or months? Stringing me along?’ pg. 188‘Do you know how embarrassed I was, Josie? My friends have to listen to me go on about you every day and I come here and what do I see? My girlfriend with that wanker.’ pg. 189

Quotes

‘You think you’re the first person to ever suffer. You think your life is so difficult. But its you who makes it difficult. Break away from those rules, Josie. Make your own.’ pg. 206‘Do you plan on being a virgin for the rest of your life?’ pg. 212‘Welcome to the nineties, Josephine. Women don’t have to be virgins any more.’ pg. 213

Quotes‘There’s nothing to look forward to any more if you don’t have dreams.’ pg. 239‘Because dreams are goals and John might have run out of goals. So he died. But we’re alive and one day I want my own garage and you want to be a hot-shot barrister and its not going to happen today or tomorrow, its going to happen in years and its something to look forward to. Promise me you will never stop dreaming.’ pg. 239

Quotes‘Because I have been fooling myself all this time. I used to be proud of not getting good marks “who cares?” I used to say. Because I’m going to be a mechanic I didn’t care what kind of marks I got. But since I met you its got to me. I’m aware of more things. I’m aware that I will never ever be as good as you or as smart as you and I hate myself for that. I need to work things out. Decide what I want out of life. But I don’t want you to blame yourself.’ pg. 249

MICHAEL A

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Name: Michael Andretti

Age: 34

Place of Birth: Sydney

Parents: -

Gender: Male

Address: Balmain, Sydney

Ethnic Background: Italian Descent

Occupation: Barrister

Religion: -

When Michael was 17 he wanted to become a pilot but he moved to Adelaide which depressed him and he turned his life to Law.

DREAMS

PERSONALITY

At first Michael Andretti was an angry and self obsessed man who just wanted to be left alone and have nothing to do with Josie or Christina, but through out the book he seems to become more open to the idea of a daughter. He is usually direct and straight to the point. He likes to joke around with Josie, and enjoys her company.

QUOTES – MICHAEL ANDRETTI

Pg 65 – “I do not want to see her. I do not want to love her. I do not want a complication in my life, Christina. I’ve worked for fifteen years to get where I am and now I don’t want this in my life,”

Pg 69 – “A promise. You keep out of my life, I keep out of yours.”

Pg 244 – “What I discussed with her is that I’d like you to be…. an Andretti”

Pg 243 – “When I was seventeen I wanted to be a pilot, but we moved to Adelaide and the move depressed me and I forgot everything I had wanted in my life. People change. Circumstances change them.”

Pg 235 – “A person doesn’t necessarily have to be happy just because they have social standing and material wealth, Josie.”

QUOTES – MICHAEL ANDRETTI

Pg 237 – “ Josie, I would rather die then ever see you suffering this way. I don’t want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you’ve gone through, but its happened and I don’t know what to do.”

Pg 236 – “Your going to go on living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes 10 seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time, whether its give birth to a baby or being a housewife, or a barrister or a soldier. You’ve accomplished something to throw that away at such a young age, to have no hope, is the biggest tragedy.”

APPEARANCE – MICHAEL ANDRETTISHORT , STOCKY, WEAR’S GLASSES. HE HAS DIMPLES, HAIR CUT

EXTREMELY SHORT AROUND HIS EA.RS, HE LOOKS STRONG. 5FT10

WEARS SUITS AND LOOKS CLASSY. HE IS RICH.

MICHAEL ANDRETTI

MICHAEL ANDRETTI IS THE FATHER OF JOSEPHINE ALIBRANDI, HE MOVED TO ADELAIDE AT THE AGE OF 17. IT SQWANDERED HIS DREAMS OF BEING A PILOT. AT THE AGE OF 34 HE MOVED BACK TO SYDNEY, HE DISCOVERED HIS CHILD AND AT FIRST WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH HER. IN TIME HE BEGAN TO LOVE HER AND ACCEPT THE FACT SHE WAS APART OF HIS LIFE. HE EVEN WENT ON HOLIDAYS WITH HER. HE CARED FOR HER AND EVEN EMPLOYED HER, WHEN JOHN BARTON DIED HE SPOKE HIS TRUE FEELINGS TO HER AND AFTER A WHILE HE EVEN ASKED HER TO TAKE THE ‘ANDRETTI’ NAME. HE SHOWS A LOT OF LOVE FOR HER AND EVEN SOME OLD FEELINGS BEGIN TO BREW UP AT THE END FOR CHRISTINA, HES A DEDICATED MAN.

Nonna

About Nonna• Full name: Katia Alibrandi• Age: 51• Place of birth: Italy• Parents: • Gender: Female• Address: Sydney, Australia• Ethnic background: Italian• Occupation: Retired• Religion: Catholic• Personality: hypocrite, judgemental, secretive,

grumpy, emotional, lonely,

Quotes• ‘I am an old women and I am tired of fighting.’• ‘ why, I once felt passion for a boy. I was once

young. I was once in love.’• “Who do you think you belong to?”• “I am an old women and I deserve respect.”• ‘In front of my eyes and I didn’t see”• “ I believe that the more you suffer on earth, the

better the reward is in heaven.”

Events• When Nonna was young she would run around her

paese like a gypsy.• Nonna was arguing with Josie about her behaviour in

class and her not concentrating in religion. • She tells Josie about History and early days in Australia.• She had to live her life as a lie, because she didn’t tell

Christina about her real dad.• Nonna was always telling Christina how to raise Josie

and what a disgrace she was not bringing her up with a father.

• Nonna only stayed with Fransesco because she didn’t want to disgrace her family, disgrace her religion and she didn’t want people to talk about her.