My Year of Meats chapter 5-8

~~~How do the families selected by Jane for the television series round out, challenge or reinforce the stereotypes about the American family?

In, My Year of Meats, Jane chose to focus on a couple of American families for the new show, My American Wife. The couple's that Jane chose to focus on seem to her, like they are typical american families and she wants the people of Japan to really see what american men and women are like in their homes.

One of the families Jane looked at was the Purcell family. The couple, Helen and Mr. Purcell, was a poor african family with a very different culture than the average whie family. When Jane chose this family she was thinking that it would be a good idea for the people of Japan to see a variety of families and not just your typical white family like on most shows.

Of course another one of the families Jane chose to look at was the Flowers. The Flowers was a white family and had the typical white life. They were a happy family and had no real problems they had to face in their lives, unlike the Purcell family did. The Flowers were probably the most common stereotype, especially to people in foreign countries like Japan.

The last family Jane looked at ended up being the stars of My American Wife, and that was the Bukowsky's. Jane chose to look at this family to give the viewers of the show a sense of hope and to show that if you stay positive, good things can happen. This was a very interesting family for Jane to look at, this was a struggling family with a daughter that was crippled. The mother was losing her job and everything was just going wrong for them. Until one day, when the crippled pretty much came back to life.