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“A good text presents memorable characters to whom the reader can relate.” Choose a main character from your text and show how they develop through the text. By Mona Rouhani In the novel Looking for Alibrandi By Melina Marchetta there are many aspects of life that the main character, Josie, has to face. Marchetta explores the issues that can be related to the teenagers today for example single-parent families, romantic relationships, social status differences, ethnicity, youth suicide and the stress of the HSC. In the novel she learns to deal with different people in different relationships. Marchetta expresses her ideas with techniques such as emotive language, realistic dialogue and humour. Many people can relate to not knowing one of their parents. In this novel Looking for Alibrandi, Josie shows the story of her father (Michael Andretti), returning after 17 years of not knowing Josie existed. Josie always had an image of her father, but when she first met him, she was surprised because she was very wrong. “I had thought he’d be tall. He wasn’t…” Josie despised her father and didn’t want anything to do with him. They even promised that they wouldn’t interfere in each others lives, until she was force