Random Family

Random Family

        I am currently reading Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.  It is about a girl named Jessica, coming of age in the ghetto.  She deals with love, drugs, trouble, and living in the ghetto in the Bronx.  I am at the beginning of the book, but I have some predictions and observations that I foresee happening.

        In the beginning of the book, Jessica mentions that her family members, mostly boys, are selling drugs in the ghetto, and that some of her past boyfriends did too.  She said that boys were attracted to her wherever she went.  Most of her boyfriends were more high class than her family, or at least they thought they were.  This is because they were all drug dealers.  It's true that the drug dealers did make more money than the people who weren't, but their behavior is so obnoxious, that it seems that they're millionaires!  It really bothers me that that kind of fake personality can attract women who should be able to see what's really inside a good guy.  The problem is, Jessica's a nice loving girl on the inside, but her personality is fake too.  If she really wanted to be who she was, she wouldn't be accepted in the ghetto.  But the best place to be in life is the place where you feel comfortable being yourself.

        What I predict is going to happen is that Jessica is going to "Fall in love" with a drug dealer.(She said that for all the other boys she dated too.)  And when she gets too close to him, he's going to get busted by the police, and he's going to blame it on Jessica, as a last resort.  I think this is going to happen because I know that she is going to date a bad guy, who is going to become really close her.  And when he does, she's going to realize the truth inside these people.  I just believe it's going to happen in this way.

        My hope is that these fake people can one day let themselves be who they are, and that will change the attitude of the people in the ghetto, drug dealers or not.  Because this book shows how much can be inside a person, even though their outside shows nothing but a fool.