Random Family by Adrian LeBlanc - Literature review Example

The story, Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, pursues the existence of a Dominican-American unit growing up and living in the Bronx in the 1990s and 1980s (LeBlanc 2003). The story is about Cesar, Jessica’s brother and Cesar’s girlfriend, Coco, who encounter children abuse drugs, poverty, and imprisonment for over a decade or so.When we meet Jessica in chapter 13 of the story, she is being imprisoned for her association in another boyfriend’s business of drugs. There she has more kids, twins again, by a guard in prison.

Cesar, Jessica’s half brother, is shown as less vicious but equally unreliable. Even though he has feelings for Coco for many years, Cesar failed in staying true with faithfulness. One of his numerous girlfriends even gets on with giving him condoms while he leaves the door. In chapter 16, George is arrested. He had become a Bronx Universe master. At the end of chapter 17, George turned 23 after being condemned to life imprisonment without parole. These chapters show how havoc and poverty wreak on communities.

Towards the end of the book, breaking out finally brings back together nearly all the Bronx’s characters. Jessica is let loose from prison; Coco finally gives birth to a boy as her fifth child, and she joins the work-force.