Jacob Coote's 'Looking For Alibrandi'

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Jacob Coote from the book ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ said “And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.” The book ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ is about a young adolescent called Josephine Alibrandi experiencing her final year at St.Martha’s. Josie has to overcome racial comments, family troubles and complicated relationships. Relationships. We all have them and need them. Not necessarily a relationship like lovers but even as friends, if we know someone we already have a relationship with them. When you’re in trouble people tend to try to help you as well. In this essay I will be discussing these two topics; relationships and help, and how they’re important to our everyday lives. In senior english we have examined ways in which the reader is positioned to accept or reject different concepts and ideas relating to the texts based on how these ideas and concepts were constructed within the text.…show more content…
No-one’s perfect, we all fall short and need help to become better. Examples of this are found throughout daily life. Old people lifting heavy things, people addicted to substances and …. are just a few examples of people needing help. However, if we don’t let them, people aren’t able to help, we’d just be running from the problem until, when we stop, we realise that there’s no-one left that’ll try to help. As stated in ‘Looking for Alibrandi’, “And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.”. This show’s how important it is to talk to people when something is wrong, instead of running from it. Help is important to me because, seeing all the bullying that goes on everyday hurts me, as i was bullied as a kid and i know how it feels. so to me help is a very important aspect of

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