Ozeki tends to bring something important up “runs away” then makes a startiling connection to that idea later on in the book. Ozeki goes on for pages on the whole idea of DES (124-126). I did not find it as important until he mentioned that it could affect Jane, and her pregnancy. I was able to predict that she was pregnant before Ozeki actually mentioned it. The whole sex scene with Sloan on page 93 left me with the feeling that something bad was going to happen between them. Ozeki says, “I was feeling kind of queasy. Just nerves. Or my period. It was way overdue” (140). It was like reading a soap opera, it was just so predictable. What was unpredictable was that the DES would affect Jane later on. It is as if all of her dreams were crushed, because of eating meat with dangerous hormones in it. Meat greatly affects Akiko’s life too. Her husband John treats her horribly, because she cannot have a baby. After Akiko watched the show about Christina, it seems as if her life changes. She comes to all of the realizations, and if the show created this moving experience for her. It creates a moving experience for the directors Suzuki and Oh too. All of their touching experiences tie back to the lamb chop, or some kind of meat. This meat brings Christina back to life. Even though it was a sad moment, I could not help but laugh when Daryll Spilkoff blurted out “Uh… Mrs.B? Uh… I think, like… Christina wants a lamp chop” (Ozeki 135). I was just as confused as he was as to why she wanted a lamp chop, until it was later stated that it was Christina’s favorite meat. It is interesting to see that the lamb chop, this un-American meat settles in Akiko’s stomach and it is what brings her menstrual cycle. The meat plays a role of creating and destroying lives. It is sad that the Dawese’s were kicked off the show because the meat they ate was of lower class. America has gone so far as to sort people into social classes by the meat they eat. Jane’s marriage with Emil is quite interesting. She said, “By the end we couldn’t even go out to dinner and think of the evening as a success. So we split up” ( Ozeki 153). I see a connection here with Akiko and John. John cannot see the shows as a success because Akiko is unsuccessful in making a child. Akiko cannot see becoming pregnant successful because of her disastrous relationship with John. There are so many unsuccessful fractions in their relationship everything else appears unproductive as well.
