The document provides a character profile of Josie Alibrandi, a 17-year-old Italian Australian girl living in Sydney who dreams of becoming a lawyer while also navigating her cultural identity and relationships with her family and friends, including learning that the man she believed to be her grandfather actually is not and meeting her estranged father for the first time.

1. Looking for
Alibrandi
Character Profiles

2. Josie Alibrandi
By Clayton, Maddi and
Kassidy.

3. AGE- 17
PLACE OF BIRTH- Sydney Australia
PARENTS- Christina Alibrandi and
Micheal Andretti.
GENDER- Female.
ADDRESS- Leichhardt, Sydney ,Australia
Italian Australian.
OCCUPATION- works at McDonald's and
then at her Fathers work.

4. -To go to Uni in Sydney to study Law.
-She dreams of being successful and of
falling in love with someone with
money of someone loving her and
having two children one boy and one
girl.

5. - -Says what‟s on her mind.
- -Doesn‟t hold back.
- -Strong minded.
- -Has a soft side.
- -She is her culture.

6. - Meets her Dad.
- Gets a boyfriend.
- One of her best friend dies.
- Ivy and Josie become friends.
- Builds better relationship with her
Nonna.
- Realises that her Nonna‟s life was harder
then her life.
- Realises how much her Mum give up and
stood up for her.
- Gets told her Nonno isn't really her
Nonno.
- She finally understood who she is.

7. -BACKGROUND
- Josie is a third generation Australian
Italian.
- -She was raised by her mum and didn‟t
know her father till she was 17.
- -Hated being illegitimate.
- - Has a strong Italian culture.
- - met her father for the first time when
she was 17.
- Strong religion
- Gets annoying and sick of her culture but
will never let it go.

8.  “ill run one day. Run for my life. to be free
and think for myself. Not as an Australian
not as an Italian and not as an in betweener.
Ill run to be emancipated. If society will let
me.”
 “I just sat there thinking back over the year
and I realised that I was emancipated long
ago. It wasn‟t at one particular point, it was
at several.”
 “well im not sure whether everyone in this
country will ever understand
multiculturalism and that saddens me,
because its as much a part of Australian life
as football and meat pies.”

9.  “I've figured out that it doesn‟t matter
whether im Josephine Andretti who was
never an Alibrandi, who should have
been a Sanford and may never be a
Coote. It matters who I feel like I am-
and I feel like Michael and Christina's
daughter and Katia's granddaughter;
Sera, Anna and Lees friend and Roberts
cousin. You know, a wonderful thing
happened to me when I reflected back
on my year. „one day‟ came. Because
finally I understood.” pg. 261

10. By Jake, Sam and Lachlan

11. All About John
John is the school captain of St Anthony
He is 17 years old
Wants to study law with Josie
He is an Atheist (pg 135)
He doesn’t know what he wants to do when he is
grown up, “But I don’t know what I want to be” (pg
133), “I don’t know what I want out of my life” (pg
47)
He is popular and good looking

12. Background
He is well educated
His father and grandfather were politicians,
“My father is a …. minister it ever had.” (pg. 45)
His mother is a medical secretary at Leichhardt
His family is rich

14. Wasn’t actually
voted school
Blue captain. Blonde
eyes hair
Ivy has more in
common with
Josie than what
Grew up with
John Barton
School she thinks she
Captain has.

15. Name: Ivy Lloyd
Age:17
place of birth: Near Sydney
dreams/aspirations: To be the best she
can and to always be the best at
everything and beat Josie.
Feelings: scared, worried, disappointed
in john for killing himself.

16. “ I worked harder
because of you.
„I‟m only
“I am a You got on my dux
bit nerves a lot.” because
page 241
scared, I didn‟t
you
know. My
father
Quotes want
you to
be‟ page
really
wants me
to be a
form 241
doctor.”
241 Ivy…
“It's not your fault , Josie. Not
yours or mine. It was john. I feel
„‟ I feel lost
without…John as a
friend. I always felt
like crying because people he was going to be
always remember the way he there pulling me up
died and not the way he lived.‟‟ when I was down.”
242 242

17. Jacob Coote

18. Basic Infomation
Age- 18
Gender- Male
Parents- Mr. Coote, Dad‟s girlfriends
Eileen, Mother died of cancer.
Hometown- Redfern
Ethnic Background- Australian
Religion- Atheist
Occupation- Mechanic

19. Hopes and Dreams
Jacob aspired to be a professional
mechanic. When Jacob and Josie were
going out, they had talked about
opening up a mechanic store. Jacob
would do all the practical work. Josie
would do the book work and legal work.

20. Quotes
„And the Aussie kids with the piece of
meat between their bread probably
envied you.‟ pg. 150
„I might not be a great university
scholar, but I‟m good with my hands.
You‟re different. You‟re good with your
head.‟ pg. 169

21. Quotes
„I don‟t want to talk about anything after.
What is this, Josie? What have you
been doing for the last couple or
months? Stringing me along?‟ pg. 188
„Do you know how embarrassed I was,
Josie? My friends have to listen to me
go on about you every day and I come
here and what do I see? My girlfriend
with that wanker.‟ pg. 189

22. Quotes
„You think you‟re the first person to ever
suffer. You think your life is so difficult.
But its you who makes it difficult. Break
away from those rules, Josie. Make
your own.‟ pg. 206
„Do you plan on being a virgin for the
rest of your life?‟ pg. 212
„Welcome to the nineties, Josephine.
Women don‟t have to be virgins any
more.‟ pg. 213

23. Quotes
„There‟s nothing to look forward to any
more if you don‟t have dreams.‟ pg. 239
„Because dreams are goals and John
might have run out of goals. So he died.
But we‟re alive and one day I want my
own garage and you want to be a hot-
shot barrister and its not going to
happen today or tomorrow, its going to
happen in years and its something to
look forward to. Promise me you will
never stop dreaming.‟ pg. 239

24. Quotes
„Because I have been fooling myself all
this time. I used to be proud of not getting
good marks “who cares?” I used to say.
Because I‟m going to be a mechanic I
didn‟t care what kind of marks I got. But
since I met you its got to me. I‟m aware of
more things. I‟m aware that I will never
ever be as good as you or as smart as you
and I hate myself for that. I need to work
things out. Decide what I want out of life.
But I don‟t want you to blame yourself.‟ pg.
249

26. GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Michael Andretti
Age: 34
Place of Birth: Sydney
Parents: -
Gender: Male
Address: Balmain, Sydney
Ethnic Background: Italian Descent
Occupation: Barrister
Religion: -

27. When Michael was 17 he wanted to become a pilot but he moved to Adelaide
which depressed him and he turned his life to Law.

28. PERSONALITY
At first Michael Andretti was an angry and self obsessed man who just
wanted to be left alone and have nothing to do with Josie or Christina,
but through out the book he seems to become more open to the idea of
a daughter. He is usually direct and straight to the point. He likes to
joke around with Josie, and enjoys her company.

29. QUOTES – MICHAEL ANDRETTI
Pg 65 – “I do not want to see her. I do not want to love her. I do not want a
complication in my life, Christina. I‟ve worked for fifteen years to get where
I am and now I don‟t want this in my life,”
Pg 69 – “A promise. You keep out of my life, I keep out of yours.”
Pg 244 – “What I discussed with her is that I‟d like you to be…. an Andretti”
Pg 243 – “When I was seventeen I wanted to be a pilot, but we moved to
Adelaide and the move depressed me and I forgot everything I had wanted
in my life. People change. Circumstances change them.”
Pg 235 – “A person doesn‟t necessarily have to be happy just because they
have social standing and material wealth, Josie.”

30. QUOTES – MICHAEL ANDRETTI
Pg 237 – “ Josie, I would rather die then ever see you suffering this way. I
don‟t want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go
through or feel what you‟ve gone through, but its happened and I don‟t
know what to do.”
Pg 236 – “Your going to go on living. Because living is the challenge, Josie.
Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes 10 seconds to die.
But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that
time, whether its give birth to a baby or being a housewife, or a barrister
or a soldier. You‟ve accomplished something to throw that away at such
a young age, to have no hope, is the biggest tragedy.”

31. APPEARANCE – MICHAEL ANDRETTI
SHORT , STOCKY, WEAR‟S GLASSES. HE HAS DIMPLES, HAIR CUT
EXTREMELY SHORT AROUND HIS EA.RS, HE LOOKS STRONG. 5FT10
WEARS SUITS AND LOOKS CLASSY. HE IS RICH.

32. MICHAEL ANDRETTI
MICHAEL ANDRETTI IS THE FATHER OF JOSEPHINE ALIBRANDI, HE
MOVED TO ADELAIDE AT THE AGE OF 17. IT SQWANDERED HIS
DREAMS OF BEING A PILOT. AT THE AGE OF 34 HE MOVED BACK TO
SYDNEY, HE DISCOVERED HIS CHILD AND AT FIRST WANTED
NOTHING TO DO WITH HER. IN TIME HE BEGAN TO LOVE HER AND
ACCEPT THE FACT SHE WAS APART OF HIS LIFE. HE EVEN WENT ON
HOLIDAYS WITH HER. HE CARED FOR HER AND EVEN EMPLOYED
HER, WHEN JOHN BARTON DIED HE SPOKE HIS TRUE FEELINGS TO
HER AND AFTER A WHILE HE EVEN ASKED HER TO TAKE THE
„ANDRETTI‟ NAME. HE SHOWS A LOT OF LOVE FOR HER AND EVEN
SOME OLD FEELINGS BEGIN TO BREW UP AT THE END FOR
CHRISTINA, HES A DEDICATED MAN.

34. About Nonna
• Full name: Katia Alibrandi
• Age: 51
• Place of birth: Italy
• Parents:
• Gender: Female
• Address: Sydney, Australia
• Ethnic background: Italian
• Occupation: Retired
• Religion: Catholic
• Personality: hypocrite, judgemental, secretive,
grumpy, emotional, lonely,

35. Quotes
• „I am an old women and I am tired of fighting.‟
• „ why, I once felt passion for a boy. I was once young. I was
once in love.‟
• “Who do you think you belong to?”
• “I am an old women and I deserve respect.”
• „In front of my eyes and I didn‟t see”
• “ I believe that the more you suffer on earth, the better the
reward is in heaven.”

36. Events
• When Nonna was young she would run around her
paese like a gypsy.
• Nonna was arguing with Josie about her behaviour in
class and her not concentrating in religion.
• She tells Josie about History and early days in Australia.
• She had to live her life as a lie, because she didn’t tell
Christina about her real dad.
• Nonna was always telling Christina how to raise Josie
and what a disgrace she was not bringing her up with a
father.
• Nonna only stayed with Fransesco because she didn’t
want to disgrace her family, disgrace her religion and
she didn’t want people to talk about her.