chapters 3-4

plot summary
Josie meets her father for the first time.


Michael Andretti: not tall, not good-looking, doesn't look like a weakling, had a sense of strength about him, looked like an intellect, solid, dimples.


Josie fights with her Nona 


introduces John Barton, debating.


John Barton: 'love of her life', school captain, son of a member of parliament, good debater, good-looking, popular, natural redness in his cheeks, thin, good height, hazel eyes.


gets a job at Mac-donalds.




Challenges faced by the character.


fights with her Nona


talks to John Barton


Quotes


' I hate the word "respect". It makes me sick to my stomach (pg.40)'


'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 my society will let me(pg.40)'


'I looked at him and at that moment every image I had of my father flew out the window.
I thought he'd be tall.
He wasn't.
I thought he'd be good looking.
He wasn't
I thought he'd look like a weakling.
He didn't. (pg.38)'




Vocabulary
weakling: A person or animal that is physically weak and frail. Pushover.


backer: A person, institution, or country that supports something financially.


emancipated: set free, from legal, social or political restrictions.