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WAITING FOR ALIBRANDI Josephine Alibrandi is a young, intelligent woman in her final high school year. She had just approached a year of her life when too many critical things happen. She needs to deal with problems of a typical teenager - first love, study and getting ready for the university, the friendship and even death. But there are other problems too – as finding her own identity, social acceptance and meeting her father for the first time in seventeen years. Her life is changing and those changes need her anticipation in order for her to find her inner happiness. Josie is of an Italian descend. Her grand parents migrated to Australia nearly 40 years ago together with other family members. Although she was born in Australia already as a second generation, Italian way of life and a lot of regulations are still ruling the family in a big way. Her grandmother is patronizing, sometimes emotionally blackmailing, but also trying to show Josie how to live good in her own understanding. Josie dislikes all this and wants to separate herself from her background more than anything. Unsure and confused with her own identity and trying to place herself in the society, Josie says, “I’ll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself. Not as an Australian and not as an Italian and not as an in-between. I’ll run to be emancipated. If society will let me…” Josie shares quite nice relationship with her mother Christina who tries her best at bringing up her daughter as a sole parent.
Approximate Word count = 1026
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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