Three-Act Structure In The Narrative, Introduction-Conflict Resolution Analysis

The principle of three-act structure in the narrative, introduction-conflict-resolution, that coalesces around the foreign participants is tied to the original goal of the show participants’ journey, marriage, which functions as a blueprint for how the show filters race, gender, class between the First World and the other through practice of tolerance. Manifest are the conflicts between the couple themselves or between them and the American partners’ families, friends, and children. Most of the conflicts are described as brought by cultural differences or the concerns about ‘what if she (or he) is just using you’ (e.g., “I’m very very worried that you (Mohamed) end up scamming my mom.”- Danielle’s son, Corey; “She (Evelin)’s using him for her …show more content…
On the first episode in season two, the US female character, Chelsea gives information about Nicaragua in her introducing her Nicaraguan fiancé, Yamir, stating “(Nicaragua) is extremely different culture. Barely they live in without hot water. And sometimes there’s no water so you have to use a bucket” with inserted footages of a street and places selling banana in a tent alongside the street in Nicaragua. This type of explanations about foreignness, starting with “In her (or his) country, they don’t have …” is frequently found in other characters’ statements as well. The expositions emphasize their uncivilized and impoverished culture, which is implied as main reason for the conflicts they have. As the culture is covered as the most important factor in the narrative, the culture (and the cultural inferiority) is placed as the essence of the foreign participants. In this manner, their love that the characters emphasize throughout the show is also described with the …show more content…
Although they remain uneducated, the traditional values that are reflected in their essence, seemingly are desirable. With the help of the desirable value within them, the potential threat the astute foreigners have can be effaced. Though they can take advantage of the naïve Americans, the foreigners do not disturb the existing hierarchy of race and gender much, rather they compensate for the loss of the traditional value, which makes the culture, the essence of the foreign partners, bearable. The ambivalent attitude to their partners that the divorced American characters show witness how the tolerance can be enacted. Whereas they insist their true love to their partners, they claim that if their foreign partners could not fulfill their role as a (step) mother, their marriage would never happen. Opposite to their refusal to be called as the MOB, the foreign partners’ attributes as the MOB including their role as a domestic housewife and a step mother is constantly assessed by their wedding date. After passing the one month evaluation of her motherhood by living with Brett’s daughter, Daya assures Brett of the marriage. Evelin, from Brazil, also fully performs her role as a domestic housewife who ends up Justin’s messy bachelor life and cleans up after him, even though she insists she is not here for housework. Upon the