Modern Family Tv Show Analysis

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Modern Family is a TV show that is written by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. This show is a comedy about an American family who are close knitted and are always dealing with a small or large issue. I believe that the best thing about the show is that the directors were together talking and retelling stories about their own families. Later the authors realized that they might make a show out of it, then before you know it the TV was created.
The show has three different families who are all related, the Dunphy’s and the Pritchett’s. These two families are related by marriage and are constantly doing things together. This show is the modern day Full House. The main purpose of the show is to project an image of a typical American family. The ideal image of a family in America is a close knit family who builds each other up when there is an issue going on. Also, the ideal American family always has something to laugh about together. American families are not perfect, but they try to make the best out of
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It shows how there are not just families with a mom and dad of the same race with a couple of children. Not all households are the same. There is a gay couple with an adopted Korean baby. There is a man who is divorced and remarried to a woman who is old as his daughter with a who is his stepson. Then finally there is a family with a husband and wife with three kids. This is a great way to display American families on TV. Every family is different, but all have things that make them similar. When the show switches from house to house, you can see how each house does things differently. The house with three children is always hectic and there is always something broken, about to be broken, or on fire. In the house, with the gay couple, it is well put together. Everything in the house is clean and ordinate. The last family is a quiet house that does not have much going on, but everything revolves around the

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