Representaion Of Black People

My Wife And Kids



The representaion of black people in the comedy My Wife and Kids are portrayed as a higher class. The father Michael Kyle, a loving husband and modern-day patriarch who rules his household with a unique and distinct parenting style. When his wife Janet becomes a stock market trailblazer his life as he knows it changes forever. He has to play house husband with his three kids. one of them, his only son Junior idolizes a gangster rep instead of his father, his daughter Claire who is an attention seeker and always comes to Michael for help, and her little daughter Kady who lives him very much. In this comedy, the setting isnt in a ghetto area where they are all normally situated, it is situated in the suburbs on bridgeport connecticut. Michael kyle is regarded as a poweful black man in the comedy as his teaches his 3 kids a lesson about earning a living as respect while Janet Kyle is working in a high flying stock market and rarely has time for her kids until she gets fired and commits herself to her family. I think the reason they call it my wife and kids is because its about Michael Kyle really looking after the family and raising his kids. So this shows that as a black man, he is regarded in a high class. Janet Kyle (wife) has a high class job, she works in a stock market making millions and millions, in those days people wer'e successful working in that sector and she had a high class job working in high class area. Junior (son) looks up to his father, he is the real comedian in the comedy. He tries to fit in with his friends and tries to be a gangster and make a rep so Junior is portrayed as a person who wants to commit crime, do drugs and carry guns. Claire is portrayed as an attention seeker and only comes to Michael when she wants something. she is only interested in two things, boys and being popular this shows that she is just like all girls, not just black girls but all types of girls, she just wants to be knowen. Kady, the youngest of them all is portrayed ad 'daddy's little princess' and is madly adored by Franklin the little boy across the road. Franklin who isnt apart of the family, is portrayed as a very intelligient person for such a very young age. He adores Kady and will do anything for her and he is Michael little assistant, he always helps him when hes in trouble. Black people in My Wife and Kids are not portrayed as gangsters or hip hop maniacs or thugs, they are portrayed as a high class family living in a big masnion and earning money and taking care of each other. They are not like a family who dont look after each other and become thugs and stuck up, the real connotation of My Wife and Kids in Micahels case is 'his life' and 'his love'

By Nabil Qazi And Vipesh Lakhani.