Random Family - Analysis
Random Family: An Analysis Sex, drugs, family, children, money, and prison are all complicated things that are
reserved for adults to worry about in ordinary circumstances. In the book Random Family by Nicole LeBlanc, teenagers and young children are forced to learn to navigate multiple adult worlds and to constantly have to “change hats” depending on their specific situations. In only 400 pages of text, multiple characters in the novel have had multiple children and partners. These same characters have experimented with drugs, sold drugs, covered up for others who are dealing drugs, gone to jail, and gotten out of jail; all within an approximate10-‐year span. The sociological exchange theory can be applied to many different parts of this novel, which will be discussed below. Also, there are three major undercurrent themes in this novel that will be discussed in great detail over the course of this essay and they are: cultural perspectives on relationships; multi-‐partnered fertility issues; and childhood adultification. The sociological theory termed exchange theory, “views people as rational beings
who decide whether to exchange good or services by considering the
reserved for adults to worry about in ordinary circumstances. In the book Random Family by Nicole LeBlanc, teenagers and young children are forced to learn to navigate multiple adult worlds and to constantly have to “change hats” depending on their specific situations. In only 400 pages of text, multiple characters in the novel have had multiple children and partners. These same characters have experimented with drugs, sold drugs, covered up for others who are dealing drugs, gone to jail, and gotten out of jail; all within an approximate10-‐year span. The sociological exchange theory can be applied to many different parts of this novel, which will be discussed below. Also, there are three major undercurrent themes in this novel that will be discussed in great detail over the course of this essay and they are: cultural perspectives on relationships; multi-‐partnered fertility issues; and childhood adultification. The sociological theory termed exchange theory, “views people as rational beings
who decide whether to exchange good or services by considering the
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