1、The Joy Luck Club By Tracy,Amy Tan,Born February 19, 1952Oakland, California,United StatesOccupation WriterNationality American, ChineseGenres novel,谭恩美（Amy Tan）,The Joy Luck Club (1989) was her first and perhaps most well known book. It brought her great success and made her name known around the w
2、orld. It was adapted into a film in 1993,works,The Joy Luck Club (1989) The Kitchen Gods Wife (1991) The Hundred Secret Senses (1995) Two Kinds (2000) The Bonesetters Daughter (2001) Saving Fish from Drowning (2005),Any Tan and her mother,In her stories, Tan blends Eastern and Western cultures, ofte
3、n by telling a “Chinese“ story through “American“ eyes, and vice versa. The story came from her relationship with her mother. They had fought throughout her childhood. Later, she gradually began to realize that one of their problems was that she did not understand her mother, who desperately wanted
4、to be understood.,Amy Tan and the novel,Long conversations with her mother evolved into The Joy Luck Club. Tan created the characters of Rose, Waverly, June and Lena to personify her own questions and concerns. She finally saw that she had to learn about her mothers life in order to understand her o
5、wn history and personality.,The Joy Luck Club (1989) a best-selling novel In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang,The Joy Luck Club is a novel about the relationships between Chinese-American women and their Chinese mothers. The novel focuses on four Chinese America
6、n immigrant families who start a club known as “The Joy Luck Club “.They live in San Francisco, meet regularly to play mah-jong, eat, and tell stories. Each of these women have adult Chinese-American daughters.,The stories are told from the eyes and minds of their American-born daughters Daughters a
7、re tales of what it means to American, with parents, especially mothers, who have had very different beginnings.Mothers have much to tell them, to share with them, so they can help them and so they will remember.,mothers and daughters,mothers and daughters,Suyuan Woo, Jing-Mei “June “,Lindo Jong , J
8、ordan Waverly Jong,Ying-Ying St. Clair, Lena St. Clair,An-Mei Hsu, Woo Rose Hsu,Suyuan Woo,Jing-Mei “June“ Woo,During the long journey, Suyuan contracts such severe dysentery that she feels certain she will die. Fearing that a dead mother would doom her babies chances of rescue, she reluctantly and
9、emotionally leaves her daughters under a barren tree, together with all her belongings, along with a note asking anyone who might find the babies to care for them and contact the father. Suyuan then departs, expecting to die. However, she is rescued by a truck and finds out her husband has died.,An-
10、Mei Hsu,mourning for her original husband be raped Fourth Wife,Grandparents resent live with her mother immigrates to America,racist husband leaves her divorce papers wins,Rose Hsu Jordan,An-Mei learns that her mother was coerced into being Wu-Tsings concubine through the manipulations of his Second
11、 Wife, the favorite. This woman arranged for An-Meis mother, still in mourning for her original husband, to be raped by Wu-Tsing. The stigma left An-Meis mother with no choice but to marry Wu-Tsing and become his new but lowly Fourth Wife. She later lost her baby son to Second Wife, who claimed the
12、boy as her own child.,MotherandDaughter,Lindo Jong,strong-willed married sixteen a little boy as a brother mother-in-law escape emigrate to America,independent-minded and intelligent annoy letting her mother down compare gifted chess champion divorced American boyfriend,Waverly Jong,Ying-Ying St. Cl
13、air,fate abusive husband relationships with other women DivorcedFirst baby Died Depressedruined her life moving to San Francisco,Lena St. Clair,loveless marriage a controlling husband financial “equality“ frustrated and powerless.,Anmei Rose,hope and strength,Cultural conflicts/blending,Understandin
14、g,male superiority,Feudalism,wartime,superstitious,mother-daughter relationship,.,The mothers believe that the daughterswill intuitively understand their cryptic utterance, but the daughters dont understand them at all.,Mother would like a daughter to obey their wills while daughters would like To b
15、e free and independent.,Mothers Control vs. Daughters Rebelliousness,The mother, influenced by the Chinese tradition, had a strong willing of taking in charge of the childrens education.When Jing-Mei quarrels with her mother Suyuan, Suyuan says, “Only two kinds of daughters, those who are obedient a
16、nd those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter! ”,Mothers Control vs. Daughters Rebelliousness,Suyuan always wanted Jing-Mei to be the best of herself, while Jing-Mei took it as her mother wanting her to be the best of the all. While in Jing-M
17、eis eyes, are her mothers impossibly high expectations on her, which made her felt she is a failure.Growing up, she became the independent, have her own individuality and personality, regarding her mothers warning as irrelevant, and advice as intrusive.However, she could still felt her mothers disap
18、pointment to her, which really hurt .,The daughter in the parable has never known the sorrows that her mother experienced in China, but she cannot appreciate her good fortune because she does not know her mothers story. Moreover, although the mother desires to live out her hopes through her daughter
19、, the lack of communication between them prevents her wish from being granted in its entirety.,mother-daughter relationship,Once you are born Chinese, you cannot help feel and think Chinese. Someday you will see, it is in your blood, waiting to be let go. 一旦你生为中国人，就不能不用中国方式思考，总有一天你会明白，你的中国血液会从你的心里流出
20、来。,To understand and to be understood,The Joy Luck Club (film),The Joy Luck Club is a 1993 American film about the relationships between Chinese-American women and their Chinese mothers. It is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Amy Tan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bass. The film
21、 was produced by Oliver Stone and directed by Wayne Wang. The cast is notable for consisting primarily of Asian American women.,俞 飞 鸿,温明娜,周采芹,I see you,To be the best of the mother, not the best of the all.,Mother stands for“母亲”这个单词表示：M For the MILLION things she gave me,M-她带给我的百万种幸福和和收获O For shes g
22、rowing OLD,O-与此同时，她在慢慢变老T For the TEARS she shed to save me,T-她曾为我哭泣H For her HEART of purest gold,H-她有一颗金子般最纯真的心E For her EYES, with love-light shining,E-她的眼中闪耀爱的光芒R For she is always RIGHT and always be.R-她一直是对的，也将永远是对的,A mother is best. A mother knows what is inside you .,When you feel you are al
23、one in the crowd,熙熙攘攘之中，你若感觉孤独When you think no one can understand you,没人能了解你心中的痛苦When your love is rejected by others,当你付出的爱得不到回应and when you hate your Life,当你憎恨生活Just close your eyes, and see, her face who loves you闭上双眼，你会看到那爱你之人的容颜more than any one else,她爱你胜过世上所有who care for you in loneliness,在孤独
24、中抚慰你and dies when you cry.因你的哭泣而伤心欲绝She is no one, but your sweet loving mother.她不是别人，正是你亲爱的母亲,Love your mom first and always.请将你的爱回报给她,Sometimes it may not seem like it, but I really do love you.有时候好像不是这样，但是我真的爱您。There are little things that I should have said and done to show my gratitude, but it is appreciated what you do.尽管我为表示谢意所说的和所做的都那么少，但同样也是表达对您所做一切的感激之情。,Thank you !,
