Literary Techniques In Looking For Alibrandi By Melina Marchetta
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Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta explores the journey of a young girl called Josephine (Josie) Alibrandi. She is attending her final year at St Martha’s catholic school. Throughout the novel, Josie has many experiences and Melina expresses these through themes such as family and relationships, culture and secrets and lies. These three themes are conveyed to the reader through Melina Marchetta’s use of literary techniques such as: ****.
Throughout the novel, many relationships are explored between different people which helps the readers reflect on their own personal family and relationships. As Josie was going up, she grew up with only one parent, meaning she was also illegitimate. This gave Josie an extremely close relationship with