ween. I'll run to be emancipated."
             She does not understand that running from her problems will not solve them, only delay them. She has not become aware of how to change her situation. It is after Josie starts to date Jacob that she begins to recognize this. He helps her to understand that her
             "...culture...makes you different to people..."
             Her perspective shifts when she sees that everyone, even rich Anglo-Saxon Australians, have problems, too, just like her. She takes a closer look at her problems with her identity and becomes conscious of the fact that many of them are trivial compared to those of her rich Anglo-Saxon friend, John. John is Josie's ideal of what a young man should be like: someone who has everything under control. Then, she begins to realize that John seems to be in a predicament when he tells her ,
             "I don't think I want to live this life anymore."
             At first Josie is not aware of the gravity of what John saying. She
             "...wondered what other life there was to live...and realized that he meant no other life."
             "...like religion, culture is nailed into you so deep you can't escape it. No matter how far you run."
             Josie comprehends that it is not what you are and what you do, but who you are that makes a person free to accomplish emancipation, and thus we see just how much Josie has matured. And how has she achie
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