Jane is the main character in My Year of Meats, through out the chapter, she explain how that year changed her life.
She accepted the job to translate a weekly show into Japanese, My American Wife, which introduce a wife and their life. At the end of the show, all wives will have to prepare a dish with meat because meat is the message.
At the beginning she wasn't the director of the show, but ever since the directer, Oda got a anaphylactic shock, Jane gets to direct the rest of the show. "John" doesn't like the show Jane directed because she used other meat instead of beef.
Jane was married to Emil, an African American; they divorce because they found out that they didn't love each other that much and also because Jane couldn't get pregnant. So, Jane thought sex without condom is safe. She got pregnant with Sloan, but she lose the baby when she was in Colorado. The doctor told her that the baby was already dead for a few weeks.
Through out the show, Jane found out that they use DES in producing the beef. She decided to tell everyone the truth after she received Akiko's fax and know how bad John is. She went to Colorado to film the production of beef. She met Bunny and her daughter, Rose who is only 5 years old; she is a premature child.
Jane went back to New York and her life changed because she lose the baby and her job. She cried every time she watch the video, thinking about her child. So, she went back to her mum for comfort and she learned a lot from her.
After finish editing the videos, she send it to Bunny, Dyann and also Sloan. She learned that the "maybe sometimes you have to make things up, to tell truths that alter outcomes" (Ozeki 360)
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