chapter one

Plot Summary


In the beginning of Looking for Alibrandi, your introduced to the main character, Josephine. Josie feels like she doesn't fit into her catholic school environment, because her parents were not married when she was born, and she only lives with her mum.

Josephine was described as: has a few blemishes (pimples), average height, curly hair.

Josie's mum: olive skin, tall, slender, manageable hair, absolutely gorgeous.

Challenges faces

Trying to convinse her teacher she was using the magazine for school purposes

dislikes her grandma, always fighting.

Important quotes

This first chapter captivated me by introducing the story with similar experiences that I have been through before.

"Panic was my first reaction to the multiple choice options which lay on my desk in front of me" (pg. 1)

also by saying how her and her mum would not always get along

"my mother is pretty strict with me" (pg. 6)

"Mama almost gives into her each time, and some days when the three of us are together it's World War Three." (pg. 6)

Personal response


This chapter shows how Josephine see's herself as an outsider because of her family's  background.


vocabulary

obligingly: willing to do something in service or kindness; helpful.

revolt: refuse to acknowledge someone or something as having authority.

guise:an external form, appearance, or manner of presentation, typically concealing the true nature of something.