Change is a process, a transition or an alteration that affects different aspects of our life. As a result the forces of change can seriously affect the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of individuals. The affects of change can have a positive or negative outcome. These affects can be viewed in all three of the texts that we have studied for the Area of Study. Change is a part of life and whether or not we like that aftermath of the particular aspect of the change it will happen, you can put it off and put it off but sooner or later it will happen. Change is also unavoidable. To examine change and changing perspectives the following texts will be assessed the core text in the area of study “Looking for Alibrandi” the novel by Melina Marchetta, the supplementary text “At Seventeen” by Janis Ian and the text from the prescribed Stimulus booklet was the poem “The Door” by Miroslav Houlb.
Change is evident in so many aspects of life, positive examples of change are evident in the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. Looking for Alibrandi is modeled on Melina Marchetta’s own life experiences. It is about a girl in her teen years and the changes that take place in her life.
The prominent setting of Josie’s story takes place in her home town, Sydney. The story is essentially about Josephine Alibrandi or Josie as she is known by her friends and the changes that take place in her life and many other teenagers that she comes in contact with on a day to day basis. The most obvious piece of evidence in “Looking for Alibrandi” of a changed perspective is Michael Andretti’s (Josie’s father) perspective of his daughter Josie. His original perspective of Josie was that she was a mere complication and he did not want her nor he to play a role in each others lives. This can be viewed when Michael states “I do not want her, I do not want to see her. I do not want to love her. I do not want a complication in my life.” (Page 65)
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Josephine - Since I've met my father I have grown to love and accept my new member of the family, at first I was afraid and didn't know what was going to happen but now... now my feelings towards him have changed. If I could have been in my mothers shoes to change the past I would as I think she needs a man in her life. I am 17 now and hopefully a new member in the family might help with getting ...
All this changed when Josie leaves her date with Jacob Coote and is walking by herself down the streets of Sydney. Michael drives past and picks her up and takes her out for dinner and they chat casually about many different things. After this night the relationship between the two of them grows and finally evolves into a beautiful relationship. Michael gives Josie a job at his business and takes her on a trip to Adelaide with him, the bond is as strong as ever. They work on making their relationship stronger and then Michael finally asks Josie if she would think about changing her name to Josephine Andretti. This results in a mutual respect for both Josie and Michael. In this case the effects of change was a positive one.
A changed perspective can be positive or negative. A changed perspective in “Looking for Alibrandi” is Josie’s perspective of John Barton. In the beginning of Josie and John’s relationship Josie stated that John was the love of her life and if she could get any more out of life was to have him (page 41).
John was the captain of St Anthony’s school, the son of a member of parliament, he coincidently was of a higher socio-economic status then her, good looking. All she wanted was a life where she was looked at with wow, for people to recognise her, to have a life free from all the things that she had at that point in her life. After a chain of unexpected things happening to John and conversations that the two had would never prepare Josie for what was to come.
The start of Josie’s changing perspective of her friend John was at a debating night. The two of them were having a conversation about what they wanted their futures to hold for them, where John states that he thinks “life is shit” (page 47) on this same page Josie states that “she was faced with a new Jacob that I really didn’t know” this was the changing point in their relationship. John only got more depressed and Josie reevaluated what she wanted out of life. This was a positive self reflecting change in Josie, in Johns case the pressures of his life all built up and got the better of him, he had to end his life to end the build up. In John’s Case his changing perspective of himself was a negative one.
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Who knew, changing environments could have a vast effect on my life and the lives of my four children. Changing environments changed our lives socially, economically and spiritually. All I had to do was want it bad enough, dream it big enough and prepare for the best life I had always envisioned for us. Positive changes occurred within all of us, just by changing our environment. Who knew a better ...
Change. Such an uncomplicated word, yet so hard to define. The word itself possibly prevents it from being defined because every person sees change as a different thing, so therefore there are possibly around 6 billion definitions of change in the world. The song “At Seventeen” by song writer Janis Ian relates to changing perspectives in her life as a seventeen year old girl. At the start of the song in verse one she describes a girl at seventeen who thinks she is ugly and doesn’t fit in with the popular group. She wants to have everything that the popular girls have. She soon relishes that she will never have this social status and she starts to dream up boys that call her up and ask her to dance. The end of verse two and the beginning of the third verse Janis Ian is reflecting back on those terrible years when she was seventeen. She was once an ugly outcast who had no social standing and now all the small town folk look at her and she now exceeds their expectations they have no love left, they are lonely, and now Janis has everything, she has won the game of life and love.
The lyrics of “At Seventeen” by Janis Ian are emotional and reflective as opposed to telling a story, Janis is intensely outpouring her inner most personal thoughts and feelings. Both Josie and Janis Ian’s perspective of themselves change as they grow older or more mature. In “Looking for Alibrandi” Josie states that “I’m not seventeen any more. The seventeen Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning the truth after seventeen.” (Page 260) represents that change is a process and it just doesn’t stop at one part of your life it will keep affecting you in many ways.
“The Door” by Miroslav Houlb is based on the idea of taking risks and embracing change. The poet uses a persuasive and insistent tone to encourage the audience to take action. “The Door” is an optimistic poem lacking rhythm, rhyme and predictable structure. In both my other text the characters Josie and Janis Ian both embrace the change in their lives after they realise that you can’t fight change you need to embrace it. The poem opens with the line “Go and open the door” and to begin the next three stanzas. The repetition of the essential five words gives a strong sense of not only urgency and requirement. In the first stanza the “magic city” is a dreamed up object, in both “At Seventeen” and “Looking for Alibrandi” Josie dreams up how good her life will be if she married John Barton and Janis Ian dreams up boyfriends “who call to say – come dance with me and whisper vague obscenities”.
The Essay on ‘Scrooges decision to change his way of life is purely selfish’ Do you agree?
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a moral tale that depicts the protagonist’s Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral journey from selfishness to redemption. It can be seen that his new found way of life is derived from the desire to be a good man of the community and to assist others such as Tiny Tim. The idea of Scrooge’s transformation not being selfish can also be seen in his aspiration to contribute to ...
The third stanza is different from the first two. It is here that the possibility of risk is introduced with the metaphorical fog that blocks our view, it prevents us from seeing these new changes. However, it is assured that this fog will clear. The fourth stanza becomes more persistent with the use of the phrase “Even if”. The imagery in this stanza is more prominent, introducing the idea that even if there is only “darkness ticking” or a “hollow wind” go and open the door. Time is still passing and these opportunities will pass by if we don’t go and open the door. The door is the obstacle we have to over come to get new opportunities and experiences that are a waiting outside.
Change is a process, a transition or an alteration that affects different aspects of our life. The affects of change can have a positive or negative outcome it also is unavoidable. This process, these outcomes and this unavoidability is very prominent in the three texts that I studied over the area of study which was “changing perspectives”.
