Change is defined as the process through which an individual or a group of people undergo variations to their everyday life, to their attitude or to their perspective towards someone else. Change is constantly occurring. It is also an inevitable force that challenges everyone in their day to day lives and arrives in many forms. The nature of change is unpredictable and therefore its form can either be positive and negative. Hence change is beneficial as well as damaging. This viewpoint can clearly be seen in the novel Looking for Alibrandi, Sky High in Changing: The Stimulus booklet. It is also seen in a variety of other texts. .
In Looking for Alibrandi, Josephine Alibrandi is affected by various changes that affect her life throughout the course of the novel. For example, the death of her close friend John Barton has a very damaging influence on her life but on the other hand to find and meet her father has a positive influence on her life. Moving over to the stimulus booklet, in Sky High we can see how Hannah Robert's coming to face with the relativity of life has a very dampening effect. On the very contrary in the poem Feliks Skrzynecki, the composer admires his father's hard work and his fathers traditions eventually make sense to the composer and he realizes everything he used to condemn before. .
For Josephine Alibrandi, in Melina Marchetta's "Looking For Alibrandi-, life in her final school year is tough with pressure pouring in from every direction. Developing on the example stated before, the death of John Barton - apparently a very close friend of Josephine, coming just before her HSC exam is an obstructive change. At first, when she comes to know about it, her first reaction is that it's a joke but soon the reality of losing a friend settles in and the fact that he committed suicide just adds an icing to the cake. At first, she feels more betrayed rather that sympathetic and this can clearly be seen when she says "I hate him He's a bastard- But apart from these sudden little outbursts of anger against John Barton, mainly Josie wants to be meet him again, to feel him and to talk to him.
