Joy Luck Club
喜福会读后感集合四篇
看的是中文版的，因为微信读书上正好在推荐。
一开始打开的时候其实并没联想到喜福会就是我从很小的时候就久仰大名的TheJoyLuckClub。
这本书翻译的.很不错，很能感觉出作者文笔的美，流畅到我一开始以喜福会读后感集合四篇，大家一起来看看吧。
篇一喜福会读后感看的是中文版的，因为微信读书上正好在推荐。
一开始打开的时候其实并没联想到喜福会就是我从很小的时候就久仰大名的TheJoyLuckClub。
这本书翻译的.很不错，很能感觉出作者文笔的美，流畅到我一开始以为作者只是美国籍但是用中文写书。
看到大约五分之一的时候查了一下才意识到原来就是那本我从初中的时候就一直听说但是从未看过的"名著"。
我个人五年级的时候就跟父母去了澳洲，之后自己去英国读大学，今年刚刚毕业，经历跟书中主角有相似之处。
也说不清为什么（其实原因可能跟书里的主角们有类似之处），青春期的时候虽然一直是个爱看书的文艺青年，却一直相对抗拒这种中国背景的亲情相关的书。
那时候看过美国总统讲述自己跟父母的关系和身份认同的自传，澳洲土著人融入所谓现代社会的故事等等，却对这些离自己更近的东西更敬而远之。
隐隐约约总是会觉得这些比较“主流”或者在西方比较容易红的书跟自己的个人经历总会不同，看完觉得某种程度上也确实如此。
毕竟我父母属于那种身世清白比较单纯的出来赚钱的，既不是世家，也很难说是收到过什么迫害或者太明显的不公平。
外公外婆和爷爷奶奶也都可以算那个时代相对开明的人，起码比较支持他们读书和自由恋爱/选择结婚对象。
另外一直觉得我和父母的关系已经比身边很多背景相似的朋友看上去好多了，毕竟我父母有时候还是愿意讲理的，也不曾每天逼我练钢琴或者天天研究我的考试分数到底比我邻居家的小孩多了或者少了几分。
这段时间因为种种跟本书无关所以不需要表的原因跟父母的关系前所未有的紧张,渐渐发现自己既然是个人类就难以免俗，才开始慢慢接触这个类型的书籍和电影。
喜福会讨论题
1. What is the meaning of the title? What is its role in this film?2. What historical events and themes does this film touch upon?情景一：打麻将3. Why does June and her mother sit in the east?4. How to describe the relationship between members of the Joy Luck Club?5. What does June’s narration “I n me, they see their own daughters. Just as ignorant of all the hopes and dreams...our mothers brought to this country.” imply?片段二和三：练习钢琴，才艺比赛6. How do Suyuan and Lindo compete with each other?7. What does June’s “I could only be me” mean? Do you agree with her?8. Does June play well in the talent show? After the talent show, what does Junesuppose?9. “This is not China. You can’t make me.” From this we can see what is June’s understanding about China?片段四和五：Waverly 失约，下棋10. Why does Lindo think “keep your promise to your mother” is very important?11. Why do they want to go to the beauty parlor?12. What kind of power makes Waverly become the chess champion?13. To whom does Lindo brag about Waverly’s success?14. When Waverly says she wishes Lindo wouldn’t tell everyone she is her daughter,what does Lindo think?15. How does Waverly think about her failure as chess champion?片段六：母亲拜访Lena家How does Lena understand her mother? What kind of person is her mother?What is Lena’s and her husband’s “economic strategy” after their marriage?Why doesn’t Lena mention to Harold that she can’t eat ice-cream?What do Yingying’s words “Oh, yes, she has lost so much weight. You cannot see her any more.” imply?What does the broken vase symbolize?What does Yingying teach her daughter to do?片段七Rose 和TedHow does Rose know Ted?Do they know each other long? What is Ted’s attitude toward their relationship and what is Rose’s?What is Ted’s family background? Is it different from Rose’s?What does Mrs. Jordan try to talk about with Rose? From this, we can see, what is the attitude of the American mainstream society to ethnic minorities?片段八June 和妈妈新年晚宴Why does June say Waverly is “sneaky”?What do June and Waverly argue about? And who wins in the end?Why does June feel humiliated?What is the conflict between Suyuan and June?Why does Suyuan prefer to use “hope” instead of “expect”? What is the difference?Why does Suyuan give her pendant to June?Why does Suyuan always emphasize “best quality”?讨论题：1. The Joy Luck Club is noteworthy for its universal theme of mother- daughter relationship. Try to explore the relationship between each mother and daughter and compare and contrast their relationship. Think about the following questions:What is the mothers’ original hope when they come to America? Do their daughters understand their intentions and hopes?What are the conflicts between Suyuan and her daughter, and Lindo and her daughter? Do they reconcile? In what way they reconcile with each other（thinking about scenes，their dialogues）？What problems do Rose and Lena have in their marriage? And what causes their problems?How do Anmei and Yingying teach their daughters to solve their problems and gain strength?At the beginning, can the daughters understand their mothers? And why? Later，do they understand their mothers? And in which way?2. As a Chinese –American, in some way Amy Tan describes the conflict between the first and the second generation of Chinese Americans. It also shows the culture differences between Chinese and Americans. Try to make a contrast from the following points of view.EducationMarriageTable manners or dinner customs3. Themes: discuss the fact that many films have an important message. This may be a comment on society, human relationships or values. Brainstorm the main issues/ themes in this film.One of the dominant themes of twentieth-century American literature has been the search to define the self. This search has variously explored the influences of history , economics, religion, family, genders, and ethnicity, Characters must reconcile themselves with these forces before they are able to face the future? In what ways do the daughters in the film come to terms with these influences?4. This film uses lots of symbols. Try to pick up some symbols, and think about what they stand for and what roles they play in this film.5. This film uses a lot of narrations. How do these narrations connect each story together? Do you think that this way of using narration is more like a film-making technique or something from a novel?电影梗概synopsisThe setting is in modern-day San Francisco, at a party for June, who is about to embark on her first journey to China. At this gathering we meet June’s friends and relatives while, in flashbacks---and sometimes flashbacks within flashbacks---eight human stories unfold, those of four women born into traditional Chinese culture andtheir adult daughters, all born as Americans.Each of these stories is ultimately interwoven with the others as we observe the tragedies and triumphs experienced by these older women, and the traditions their daughters have, in some cases, chosen to ignore---or unwittingly embraced in a distorted form. How each comes to terms with these situations is the crux of the film. How the stories are told is the film’s main strength.June’s mother, Suyuan, has recently passed away without ever knowing what happened to the two baby daughters she was forced to abandon years before. Suyuan came to America in 1947, having lost her family during the war. She did not know her daughters were rescued. Now remarried, she settles in San Francisco, has a daughter June, and starts the Joy Luck Club with three other women,. The four form strong friendship. As she grows up, June and her mother struggle to understand one another. They never completely resolve their differences and Suyuan dies unexpectedly. At the next meeting of the Joy Luck Club, her mother’s friends tell June that Suyuan’s twin daughters have been found. They give her a check so she can visit them. As the novel ends, she meets her sisters in Shanghai.The second set of stories focuses on Lindo who is coerced into an unhappy marriage as a teen. She marries Tyan-yu, but he never sleeps with her. Unable to tell her domineering mother –in-law the truth, she devises a clever plan and is released from her marriage honorably. She comes to San Francisco and marries Tin Jong. They have three children. Waverley is a child chess prodigy. She and her mother maneuver through their differences throughout her childhood and into her adulthood. Their differences climax over Waverly’s fiancé, Rich Schields, and finally the two women reconcile.The third series of stories focuses on Anmei, who lives with her grandmother because her mother has been disowned. When Anmei is nine, her grandmother dies; and Anmei leaves with her mother to live in the home of a wealthy man and his other wives. Anmei learns how her mother was forced into a dishonorable second marriage and why she has no control over her own life. Her mother’s subsequent suicide provides Anmei a better life. The life of Anmei is shaped by her widowed mother’s tragic experiences as a concubine as an adult, Anmei comes to San Francisco. She and her husband have seven children, including Rose. Rose marries Ted, a wealthy man, who has an affair and divorces her. Rose is overwhelmed but recovers.The fourth series of stories focuses on Yingying. Born into a wealthy family, she is a spirited child and later grows into a haughty young woman and marries a crude man who abandons her after she becomes pregnant. Yingying, the abused wife, spends much of her life in a self-imposed state of psychological punishment for an act she committed as a young mother. Then years later she marries Clifford St. Clair, an American exporter, even though she doesn’t love him. They come to San Francisco and have one daughter, Lena. As an adult Lena marries Harold Livotny, who takes advantage of her. Yingying feels responsible for raising so powerless a daughter. She wants to encourage Lena to speak up for herself.Singularly, each of these stories offers a compelling and vivid portrait of a mother-daughter relationship. Taken together, they add up to a masterful whole thatgoes straight to the heart. All of their experiences in pre-revolutionary China have a direct bearing on the lives of their daughters, who end up re-learning the same agonizing lessons in modern-day America.Memorize the following lines.参考书目《博学英语•英美影视欣赏》黄际英侯丹王丽娟选编《哈佛蓝星双语明珠导读•喜福会》The Joy Luck Club《英语电影教程下》朱维芳编著。
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club is a best-seller in America written by a Chinese American writer –Amy Tan. In the novel,she presents the stories of four Chinese-im migrant women and their American-born daughters.This club is held to gather four families, and gradually became a place where four ladies play mahjong and share personal experience deeply inside their heart. Everyone here tries her best to be happy, however, they all experienced ups and downs, sorrows and happiness in their life journey.Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share her experiences with her daughter. The first one is Wu suyun, she has abandoned her twins daughter in Japanese invasion of China and suffered from the torture of losing children in her whole life. The second is Gong linda, she was forced to be a child bride when she was young in order to survive the flood disaster .the third lady is Guo yingying, she killed her own children just in order to revenge her husband’s betrayal and lived in infinite regret forever. The last one is Xu anan ,she witnessed her mother’s humiliation andtolerance after rapped by a merchant prince and even committed suicide to encourage next generation.The purpose of their immigration to American is get rid of the miserable memory, traditional thinking and pursuing a valuable life.in a new country, as time goes by, they are gradually lack of energy to fight with life and destiny when age began to furrow the brow and fill out the jouls, but memories of old days still haunted him, therefore, they put high expectations upon their daughters and hope their daughter will change their destiny.Although these ladies have moved to America for decades, they still influenced by the feudal ideology they experienced and abide by the patrichary thoughts which had become a part of their life. they are so rigorous in their children’s education ,and consider them as a tool of showing off in front others. Because these women count it as the only way to free their children from inequity and the traditional thought of “male superiority to female”. However the daughters were raised in America, one of the most democratic and liberal country in the word where children have equal rights with their parents ,andthey can choose their own life in the way of they like .it is not difficult to understand why American –born daughters cannot receive their mothers education style and have a conflict with them.Take Waverly for example.Lindo asks her daughter to play chess and take part in a contest.After winning the game,Lindo boasts her daughter’s prize to others.Wave rly can not understand this way and even hate this.She w rangles with her mother.In her view,it is her own honor. And it is none businessof her mother.She asks her mothe r that if she wants to show off,wins the game by herself. Mothers would like a daughter to obey their wills while daughters would like to be free and independent. However, with daughters growing up , they experienced the setbacks and frustrations in their own life and marriage, and realized the traditional Chinese ideology have left marks on themselves ,they began to communicate with their mothers and draw lessons from their mother’s experience ,the maternal love plays in a important role in strengthening the mutual understanding of mother and daughter and it is significance lies in that it serve as a bridge of culturalunderstanding between Chinese culture and American culture. two generations of women staged a fight each other to reach the same goal by different routes, by mutual recognition and understanding od tragicomedy.In this novel, I believe that the tragedy of two generation of women must be in part due to the silence and tolerance in front of the autocracy. The long-term silence will destroy the existence of female self –esteem, self-confidence and personal courage, for example , 22 was lost in her marriage and even cannot voiced her own sound in the family , 33 gave in to the life and tolerated the humiliation after raped by the merchant prince, however, the women will find themselves and regain dignity if they dare to break the silence and voice their own sound ,for example , 22 finally expressed her idea that her husband couldn’t take anything away from her , she will guard the house and her baby whatever happened, which unexpectedly moved her husband and save marriage.Generally speaking, once the silence and tolerance are broken, the women can regain the courage to fight with the unequal destiny, and acquire the real joy andhappy in the life journey.。
Joy Luck Club 英文读书报告
A Brief Introduction of the AuthorAmy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Tan is good at writing the emotional entanglement between mothers and daughters, of course there are many writers who write about this subject, but Tan as the second-generation of Chinese-Americans, she has a much profounder cultural background. She has published several bestselling novels, including the Kitchen God’s Wife, Saving Fish from Drown and so on. Among them the most distinguished one is the Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages.A Brief Introduction of the NovelThe Joy Luck Club consists of sixteen interlocking stories about the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their four American-born daughters.These four mothers all escape from China during wartime and together, they start a club, playing mahjong while feasting on variety of foods. The club’s name is Joy Luck Club, showing their great hope to the new life in America. Although the four daughters look very similar to their mothers, their inner worlds are totally different from the previous generation. They have conflicts from childhood: dream or reality, concession or persistence, tradition or fashion. But when the daughters grew up and went through many choices and difficulties, they began to understand their mothers’Chinese wisdom and endeavor to protect them from being hurt. But how could this work? After many years’ dispute and cultural generation gap, the mothers are aged or even passed away, the daughters’ questions would never find satisfying answers.Mother-Daughter Conflicts in the NovelWhen I first saw the novel’s name, Joy Luck Club, I thought it is filled with joy and happiness. However, to my surprise, the book is mainly about the conflicts between mothers and daughters, which are not only complicated by age difference, but also by vastly different upbringings.All the four mothers grow up in pre-liberation China, although come to a foreign land, they remain Chinese cultural tradition. The four daughters are different, they are born in America and extremely Americanized. They did not not value the Chineseheritage which their mothers valued dearly and even called their mothers “old world fossil”. All four of the mothers make great sacrifices for their children, for example, Suyuan takes an extra job cleaning the house of a family with a piano, in order to earn Jingmei the opportunity to practice this instrument, but Jingmei is unwilling and shouts to her mother that she wishes she were died like the babies Suyuan abandoned in China, this is very hurtful. Because of language barrier and different cultural backgrounds, both two sides think the other is absurd and ridiculous, resulting a deep contradiction.Fortunately, the conflicts were dissolved in the end of the story. The daughters have experienced setbacks and confusions, especially Jingmei, understand the true meaning behind their mother’s stories, they began to draw strength from their earlier struggles and become better people.。
《喜福会》折射出的中西文化观念差异共6页
《喜福会》折射出的中西文化观念差异电影《喜福会》根据华裔美国女作家谭恩美(AmyTan)的成名作《喜福会》(The Joy Luck Club)改编而成，和其小说畅销一样，改编的电影也在国内外引起了强烈的反响。
《喜福会》通过描写四对母女间的代沟和隔阂冲突反映了东西方文化的冲突，展示了中西文化差异。
电影讲述了四位母亲在中国内地悲惨的过去以及痛苦的回忆，她们带着自己美好的梦想远渡重洋来到了美国。
她们虽然身处美国，但是她们骨子里深受中国传统文化的影响。
这就决定了她们的生活习惯、思维方式、价值观念以及道德观念等与她们在美国土生土长的女儿不一样。
他们的女儿从小接受美国文化教育，说地道的美式英语，吃着美国食物长大。
因此，本文从友谊观、价值观、面子观、信仰观四个方面阐述东西方文化差异，以帮助英语学习者在英语习得以及跨文化交际过程中进一步了解美国文化。
一、友谊观差异中国人向来好交朋友，珍惜友情。
交上一个朋友需要较长时间，人们一旦成为朋友，这种友谊将持续很久，乃至一生。
美国人口中的朋友定义比较广泛，而且有区隔性；譬如说工作上的朋友、打球的朋友、学校的朋友、喝酒的朋友，等等。
同美国人交朋友容易，深交却最难；同美国人一见如故，热情有加，但有“人走茶凉”的感觉。
另外美国地域广大，人口流动性也高，而且朋友之间绝少吐露私人的事情，所以友情是比较“温水”性。
在中国，朋友之间肝胆相照，为了朋友不惜两肋插刀，“士为知己者死”。
中国历史上，君子之交，贫贱之交，患难之交，生死之交，不乏其例。
这些在电影《喜福会》中得到了体现。
影片开头部分君美的母亲去世后，在她们传统的麻将游戏中，她的三个好友依旧把她的位置留着，并且试图把对已故友人的思念和感情转移到君美的身上，安美简单的一句“你的牌艺有你妈妈的好吗?”流露出已故朋友在心中的地位。
事实上，她们也确实是这样做的，在影片的后部分，我们可以看到君美母亲的三位朋友对待君美就像是对待自己的亲生女儿一样。
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The Joy Luck Club is a 1993 American movie about the relationships between Chinese-American women and their Chinese mothers.
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a best-selling novel
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谭恩美（Amy Tan）
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The stories told from the eyes and minds of their American-born daughters
Daughters are tales of what it means to American, with parents, especially mothers, who have had very different beginnings.
喜福会论文thejoyluckclub
The Joy Luck ClubAbstractThe Joy Luck Club is written by Amy Tan，a famous Chinese American writer. In the novel, she presents the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share her experiences with her daughter, and they never cease to try to build a bridge over the cultural differences and conflicts between them and their daughters with their maternal love of vari ous forms. At first the daughters don’t understand their mothers and the Chinese culture that their mothers represent, but as time elapses, the daughters begin to understand and appreciate their mothers' past and accept their mothers in the end. In fact, it is the maternal love the Joy Luck Club mothers extend to their daughters that finally makes their daughters understand them and the Chinese culture that they represent. In this sense, the maternal love not only symbolizes Chinese culture, but more importantly serves as a bridge over the mothers and daughters, and over Chinese culture and American culture.Key WordsThe Joy Luck Club; conflicts; understanding; culture; maternal love摘要《喜福会》是美国著名的华裔女作家谭恩美的代表作品。
The Joy Luck Club
chance to meet them. It is her American-born daughter Jing-mei who
eventually fulfilled her long-cherished wish of reuniting with them .
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During the long journey to reunite with husband, Suyuan catched a severe illness which made she felt certain she would die. Fearing that a dead mother would doom her babies' chances of rescue, she reluctantly and emotionally left her daughters under a barren tree, together with all her belongings, along with a note asking anyone who
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The origin of the name The Joy Luck Club
The four women were all immigrants from China, and had ever experienced really bad memories which result in their journey to America . They met at a church, and held meeting at one's house every week. The hostress had to serve special adept foods - to bring good fortune of all kinds - dumplings shaped like money ingots(锭), long rice noodles for long life, boiled peanuts for conceiving sons, and of course, many good-luck oranges for a plentiful, sweet life.
喜福会观后感中英文5篇范文
喜福会观后感中英文5篇范文第一篇：喜福会观后感中英文The Joy Luck Club is about the four Chinese immigrant women and their children grew up in the United States between the respective stories.The title of the novel“ the Joy Luck Club” is the original mothers played mahjong party.These women moved to the United States for decades, but they still think constantly of raised by traditional education, abide by the Chinese for thousands of years the penetration in the blood, women have become almost feudal patriarchal ideology nature.Their common ideal is to strict education, over his daughter, so they can escape their this generation of women's destiny, they become the eyes of a happy woman.However, the mother of the bundle, the girls in their different ways a revolt, in this race, class, gender inequality in American society, two generations of women staged a fight each other to reach the same goal by different routes, by mutual recognition of tragicomedy.In the tragedy and comedy, the deepest impression is not character mouth lay things, but they cannot speak, those unable to touch, carefully conceal mentioning things, is the silence behind something.Here, silence has become a symbol, its huge destructive power to destroy the existence of female self-esteem, self-confidence and courage, so that they are suppressed in the heavy loss of the ability to survive.However once the silence is broken, the destructive power will immediately disappear, have been suppressed for a long time will be the recovery of human nature, the relationship between balance and harmony will be restored.“ The Joy Luck Club” in they and most of the tales are silent and breaking the silence on the main lineof weaving together The Joy Luck Club,“" to give our inspiration: in the United States, is one of the so-called multicultural, namely sub-culture and mainstream culture to maintain a consistent pattern, essentially just a trick to cover other's eyes and ears, and cultural assimilation and psychological aggression cover.Then, with the other minority women, Chinese women only to regain the original self, breaking the silence and gender culture of silence, in their own way to self-esteem, self-confidence, independent life, to enter the ” joy and hap piness".《喜福会》所讲述的是四位华人移民妇女和她们在美国长大的儿女各自之间的故事,喜福会观后感（附英文观后感）,观后感《喜福会观后感（附英文观后感）》.小说的题目《喜福会》原是母亲们打麻将的聚会.这些妇女移居美国已有几十年,但她们仍念念不忘从小受过的传统教育,恪守着中国几千年来渗透于妇女血液之中、几乎已成为天性的封建男权的思想.她们共同的理想就是要严格教育、管束自己的女儿,使她们能逃脱自己这一辈女人的命运,成为她们眼中幸福的女人.然而,对于母亲的管束,女儿们则以各自不同的方式一味反抗,在这个种族、阶级、性别不平等的美国社会里,两代女性上演了一出由相互争斗到殊途同归、相互认同的悲喜剧.在这出悲喜剧中,给人留下印象最深的不是人物口中道出的事情,而是那些她们无法启口、无法触及、讳莫如深的事情,是沉默背后的东西.在这里,沉默已经变成了一个象征,它那巨大的毁灭性力量摧毁着女性赖以生存的自尊、自信和勇气,使她们在沉重的压抑之中丧失生存的能力.然而一旦打破沉默,这毁灭性的力量就会立刻消失,被压抑已久的人性就将得到复苏,平衡和谐的关系就会得到恢复.《喜福会》中母女们的悲欢故事大部分都是以沉默和打破沉默这条主线编织起来的.《喜福会》给我们的启示之一就是：在美国,所谓的多元文化,也就是亚文化与主流文化保持一致的新格局,从本质上来说不过是一场掩人耳目的把戏,是对亚文化的同化和心理侵略的掩盖.那么,与其他少数民族的女性一样,华裔女性只有重新找回原本的自我,打破文化的沉默和性别的沉默,按照自己的方式自尊、自信、自主地面对生活,才能最终进入“喜与福”的境界.第二篇：喜福会观后感从《喜福会》看跨文化交流电影《喜福会》（The Joy Luck Club）以插叙的方式和细腻的手法将四对华裔母女的故事缓缓道出。
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When seeing the garden in the forgotten condition, Rose realizes "there's absolutely nothing left to save" in her marriage and that she must divorce her husband. 当看见花园被遗忘 的时候，Rose意识 到这段婚姻已经没 有什么可以让她有 所依恋，她必须要 跟她丈夫离婚。
In Rose‘s marriage, she plays as an accessory of her husband who decides everything for her and the whole family. At last, Rose understands that she is not what she continually pretends to be. Therefore, she stops taking love for granted and ignoring it. Instead she shouts out audaciously, moves on to a more comfortable and better life with a feeling of being needed. 在Rose的婚姻中，她扮演丈夫的一个附件，丈夫决定她和全家的一 切。最后，Rose明白她并不是她一直所扮演的那种人。因此，她停 止自哀自怜。她大胆地喊出来了，最后她得到了一种被需要的感觉。
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Anห้องสมุดไป่ตู้ei 卢燕 Lisa Lu
Yingying 俞飞鸿
June 温明娜 Ming-Na Wen
喜福会 The Joy luck club 剧情和影评(英文)
Plot（情节回顾）在电影开头有一段剧情，就是钢琴回忆那一段，我们在这里简要提一下：在小时候微莉总是下棋冠军而June却在钢琴竞赛中失利。
June以为从此他就不用弹琴了，谁知道。
然后她被迫去弹琴，June提到她希望是那个死去的双胞胎。
这样就好了但是母亲说：It’s too late to change母亲甲（林多阿姨LinDo）1、她五岁那年，在母亲、媒婆和大户人家的共同协商下，订给了这大户人家作媳妇。
她仍跟母亲住在一起，但从此母亲用着「你是别人家的人」来对待她.诸如提醒她：「别吃那么快，人家会不要你！」......处处不忘提醒着，她已不再是母亲家的人。
母亲说，不是不再爱她，只是不敢对已经不属于自己的人有任何奢望。
她越是长成亭亭玉立，母女俩越是经常泪眼婆娑、对看无语。
2、终于，到了她得要离去的日子。
送往婆家的前一天，母亲跟她说：「你耳朵比我大，将来一定比我有福气。
以后不管发生什么事，绝对不要忘了你自己是谁。
」次日清晨，婆家派人来接她。
父母全家行李都打包好了，只等把她送走，便立刻启程南下找生路去。
母亲说：「你已经够幸运的了。
」的意思是:的确，这种穷人家的女儿，多少是根本养不大、或者早就卖掉不知死活了呢！她好歹是跟着母亲，又正正当当被送进婆家的——虽然根本不知道自己到底是嫁给了谁！3、结婚那天，她披着红头纱等丈夫进来。
等待自己的命运的那一刻，她决定一辈子记住母亲跟她说的话：「永远不要忘记自己是谁！」她嫁给了比自己小很多的小男生，结婚当夜就拿蜥蜴吓她，他又正值讨厌女生的年龄，因此不准她睡床上。
但她后来因此糟了殃。
她在婆家的身份地位，是用肚皮里生不生的出儿子来决定的。
她无法让小男生对她有任何欲念，她当然不可能受孕，她因此被婆婆三天两头的打骂。
4、最后，她用了精明的伎俩，让自己脱身。
她无意间听到女仆跟拉车夫的对谈，知道这可怜的女仆从拉车夫受了孕，车夫却抵赖不认。
她便利用婆婆迷信祖宗的弱点，告诉婆婆整桩婚姻都是错的，是媒婆贪钱的结果，祖宗中意的媳妇是那女仆，而且还让她受了传宗接代的种。
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She immigrat es to America
She kills their child to revenge him
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Lena
Lena „s husband Harold He believes that by makes everything equal, they can make their love equal as well
With her mother help ,she decides to fight for possession of house and child ,when she divorces
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This novel includes many themes For example ：1)The misunderstanding between mothers & daughter 2) The clash between generations & cultures 3)The struggle for women to fight for equity But different have different feelings . For me I think all of mothers devote themselves to do everything for their children . So we should understand them , communicate with them ,and love them
Finally, they understand each other
Ying-ying andLena St.Clair
Ying A talented and romantic man He is not at home and sometimes he comes back ,togethe r with a woman A pregnant
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• 霍尔认为, 在高语境文化中,人们有着类似的 经历和信息渠道。长期稳定的交流使人们 形成了对周围环境比较一致的反应。 • 因而,在处理大量日常事务时,他们往往不需 要、也不希望得到过多的背景知识。在交 谈中,无需过多的表达,双方就会心领神会,因 为共同的背景知识和想象空间会帮助听者 把说者含糊的意思拼凑起来。 • 在高语境文化中, 人们并不仅仅通过语言来 表达意思,手势、空间的运用,甚至沉默都可 以传递信息 , 他们认为“沉默比语言更有 力” 。
• 新一代华人子女因为生活在与父母截然不 同的文化环境里, 受着美国文化的熏陶, 平 时读的是英文书籍, 而非孔子的经典,往往在 思想上更倾向于接受美国文化与价值观。 • 然而, 无论华裔青年已经美国化到何种程度, 以白人为代表的主流社会依然把他们看作 是少数民族, 是中国人。这使得新生代的华 裔极易产生一种迷茫和身份危机:“我究竟是 谁?”
• 因此，在这种环境中成长起来的华裔第二 代，由于内外压力，他们认同的是宗主国 文化，而故国的文化则是他们需要超越的 对象，女儿们的最终结果就是: “事实上， 除了她的头发和皮肤是中国式的外表，她 的内部，全是美国制造的。” • 这也导致母女间的隔阂。在这一成长故事 中，母女间的交流障碍实质上体现的是两 种不同价值观的矛盾，女儿们不断试图超 越和弃绝以母亲为代表的东方遗产，从而 形成新的主体性。
• 华裔女作家任璧莲(Gish Jen)在一次接受采访中 谈道:“这种对身份的追求是非常美国化的。在中 国的人们不会探讨根的问题。你一旦开始思考身 为爱尔兰裔美国人、非洲裔美国人或华裔美国人 意味着什么时, 那你就是美国人了。” • 《喜福会》中女儿们一旦有了想做中国人的迫切 愿望,这便表明她们已经非常美国化了,不再是中国 人。” • 既然她们已经是美国人了 ,便不用担心被中国文化 同化。她们渴求具有一定的中国气质 ,在某种程度 上也反映了美国人对异域文化的向往。
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母亲丙 （安美阿姨 An Mei） 女儿丙（露丝 Rose）
【他只会更将你视为理所当然】
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借由母亲屈辱的一生 和自杀一事，学会了 在不公平的命运前大 声喊叫，深切体悟出 要珍惜、尊重自己的 价值、
罗丝（Rose）: 嫁入豪门后心甘情愿付
出和妥协，放弃深造的 机会，甚至贬低自我， 不再有主见，在婚姻中 被丈夫忽略。听完母亲 的故事，明白珍惜自己 才会被人珍惜的道理后， 重新肯定了自我价值， 挽救了婚姻。
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母亲丁 （苏 Su Yuan） 女儿丁 （君 June）
【我对你没有期许，只有期盼，期盼你拥有更好的。】
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抗战时期被迫遗弃一对 双胞胎女儿，到美国后 再婚，她将所有希望放 在女儿君身上，希望把 她塑造成一个有别于自 己能成为白人社会所接 受的高雅女性。
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On her journey she cooed to 在前往美国的旅途中，她对 the swan: "In America I will have 那只天鹅低声柔语道：“到了 a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth 美国，我要生一个女儿，像我 is measured by the loudness of 一样。在美国，她不会受到丈 her husband's belch. Over there 夫的颐指气使。在那里，她也 nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak 不会被人瞧不起，因为我会让 only perfect American English. 她说一口地道的美式英语。她 And over there she will always 将应有尽有，不会感到一丝的 be too full to swallow any sorrow! She will know my meaning, 悲伤难过。她会明白我的一番 because I will give her this 苦心，她会成为一只超过我们 swan—a creature that became 想想的美丽天鹅。” more than what was hoped for."
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☞ Waverly does her best to everything to make her mom happy.
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thejoyluckclub《喜福会》英文观后感
T h e J o y L u c k C l u b《喜福会》英文观后感(总2页)--本页仅作为文档封面，使用时请直接删除即可----内页可以根据需求调整合适字体及大小--My Appreciation of the Joy Luck ClubThe first time I saw the title of the film, the Joy Luck Club, I thought that it would be a film filed with joy, luck and happiness. However, out of my expectation, in the film, I saw many unpleasant things—conflicts, hardship, disappointment, sorrow, hurt, torture etc. Of course there were some moving parts, and fortunately, it was a happy ending. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much. It made me have a penetrating thinking.The Joy Luck Club tells about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and their struggling to understand each other.The film shows us these topics: the misunderstanding of love between the mothers and the daughters, the clash between the generations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity. Now I am going to show you my understanding of them, emphasizing on the first topic.In many cases, we and those we love are easy to hurt each other because of the misunderstanding of love, the conflicts in generations and culture background, or unconsciousness.Take Jingmei and her mother Suyuan as an example. When Suyuan demands the little Jingmei to play piano, Jingmei shouts to her mother, “You can’t make me!” Even Jingmei cried that she wish she isn’t Suyuan’s daughter and Suyuan isn’t her mother, and that she wishes she were the dead like the babies Suyuan abandoned in China. The sad expression on Suyuan’s face indicates that she is hurt deeply by her daughter’s innocent words.This reminds me of my similar experience. Once I hurt my mother as Jingmei did.I did n’t mean to hurt her, but those wounding words just slip out of my mouth unconsciously. Often, we hate that why our parents don’t know my feelings, why they like to make us be something and totally unaware that what their children are. While the parents don’t know why all their sacrifices to the children can’t be paid off, even incite hatred. Actually, this is the generation gap that causes the misunderstanding. We don’t know the hardship our parents underwent before. They can’t understand what we are thinking. So misunderstandings appear. Maybe as a child, Jingmei cannot comprehend what her remarks mean to Suyuan, and just want to show her grudge. But another main reason is the different backgrounds of Suyuan and Jingmei bare. Chinese parents always like to put all their hopes on the next generation for they are the generation full with hardship and pain. All they do just want the children to be better, but they ignore that whether their children can accept or not, not along a child born in America, influenced by the American’s individual freedom and knowing little about Chinese culture. The generation gap and culture conflict cause the misunderstanding of the mother and the daughter.The other example is Waverly and her mother Lindo. Waverly tries her best to please Lindo in everything. Whether her mother approves or not becomes the master of all her choice. Even Waverly marries a Chinese man because Lindo likes Chinese, while she doesn’t love. Waverly doesn’t understand why Lindo disapprove or criticize whatever she has done. On the other side, Lindo thinksthat her daughter is ashamed of her, which is her continual internal injury after Waverly’s winning that chess contest, when Waverly shouted to Lindo if Lindo wanted to show off, won the chest by herself. Every time, Lindo’s disagreement with or indifference to Waverly directly results from the thought that Waverly feels it shameful to be her daughter. Both of them deeply love each other, but in the meantime, they hostile and hurt one another. This is the way them get along with each other. Fortunately, they clear up their misunderstandings and discover themselves by communicating.I am deeply moved by this scene:Waverly Jong says to Lindo, sobbing,, “You don't know, you don't know the power you have over me. One word from you, one look, and I'm four years old again, crying myself to sleep, because nothing I do can ever, ever please you.”And after a short period of silence, Lindo smiles to Waverly with tears in her eyes, “Now, you make me happy.” Then they laugh heartily, teary-eyed with happiness.Seeing the old Lindo bursts out laughing, like a child, and Waverly laughs joyfully, I sincerely feel delighted for them. Love needs communicating, understanding, and tolerance, which is what I learn from them.Along with above mentioned, the struggle for the women to fight for equity is also brought to the surface. For instance, Ying-ying encourages her daughter Lena to escape an unhappy marriage, not repeating the same mistakes she made in her first marriage. And An-mei tells her daughter Rose to learn to shoutat the unfair fate, and express her own will because Rose has lost herself in her marriage. These two cases reveal that the women begin to release themselves from the restrains of being oppressed by the men and the old-fashioned thoughts as well as some Chinese traditional characters. Eventually, the women find their true value and win their own happiness.View from the whole film, the title, the Joy Luck Club may just be the old generation’s hope of better life for the next generation. On the whole, this is a movie made specifically for women. It is worth our appreciation.。
喜福会人物简介
The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of Mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. There are sixteen chapters divided into four sections, and each woman, both mothers and daughters, (with the exception of one mother, Suyuan Woo, who dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each section comes after a parable.In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nuyen, Ro salind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by Amy Tan and Ronald Bass.Contents [hide]1 Plot summary and Reception2 Criticism3 Characters3.1 Mothers3.2 Daughters4 Table of contents4.1 Feathers from a Thousand Li Away4.2 The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates4.3 American Translation4.4 Queen Mother of the Western Skies5R e f e r e n c e s6 External links[edit] Plot summary and ReceptionAs the novel opens Jing-Mei "June" Woo has just lost her mother, Suyuan, to an aneurysm. She is asked by her mother's three friends to take Suyuan'splace in their Mah-Jong foursome and their "Joy Luck Club". The novel unfolds with interspersed chapters by each of the three remaining members of the Club and their American-born daughters. Lindo and Waverly Jong began their war over Waverly's childhood chess stardom and the effects it has on every aspect of Waverly's adult life. An-Mei Hsu recounts the tragedy that gave her strength, and worries that her daughter, Rose, lacks the same determination. Lena St. Clair tries to care for her eccentric mother, while her mother recounts a secret history that has allowed her to see more de eply than her daughter imagines. Through it all, June Woo tries to piece together the stories that her own mother can no longer tell, and to be faithful to her mother's memory despite their sometimes rocky relationship. This story of the bonds between m o t h e r s a n d d a u g h t e r s h a s b e e n p o p u l a r w i t h f e m a l e r e a d e r s.[edit] CriticismThough her book has been widely praised by critics, it has been criticized byn o t e d A s i a n A m e r i c a n a u t h o r F r a n k C h i n f o r p e r p e t u a t i n g r a c i s t stereotypes.[1][2][3][edit] Characters[edit] MothersS u y u a n W o oDuring the Second Sino-Japanese War, Suyuan lives in Kweilin (Guilin) while her husband at the time served as an officer in Chungking (Chongqing). She starts the onginal Joy Luck Club with her three friends to cope with the war. On the day of the Japanese invasion, Suyuan leaves her house with nothing but a b a g o f c l o t h e s,a b a g o f f o o d,a n d h e r t w i n b a b y d a u g h t e r s.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 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. Suyuan then departs, expecting to die, but is rescued herself. She later remarries, comes to America, forms a n ew J oy L uck Club wit h thre e ot her Chin ese fe mal e imm igra nts she me t atchurch, and has more children. But her abandonment of the twin girls haunts her for the rest of her life. After many years, Suyuan learns that the twins were adopted, but dies of a brain aneurysm before she can meet them. It is her A m e ri c an-bo r n d au g ht er J in g-m e i w ho fu l fi ll s he r lo n g-c he r is h ed w i s h o f reuniting with her elder twin half-sisters.As Suyuan dies before the novel begins, her history is told by Jing-mei, based on her knowledge of her mother's stories, anecdotes from her father, and what the other members of the Joy Luck Club tell her.A n-M e i H s uAn-Mei is raised by her grandparents and other relatives during her early years i n N i n g b o a f t e r h e r w i d o w e d m o t h e r s h o c k s t h e f a m i l y b y b e c o m i n g a concubine to a middle-aged wealthy man after her first husband's death. This becomes a source of conflict for the young An-Mei, as her aunts and uncles deeply resent her mother for such a dishonorable act, and they try to convi nce An-Mei that she is not fit to live with her disgraced mother; now forbidden to enter the family home. An-Mei's mother, however, still wishes to be part of her daughter's life. After An-Mei's grandmother died, she lives with her mother in t he h ome of h e r m othe r's ne w hu sban d, W u-Ts in g. A n-Me i le arns tha t herm o t h e r b e c a m e W u-T s i n g's c o n c u b i n e t h r o u g h t h e m a n i p u l a t i o n s o f h i s favorite concubine known as Second Wife, who arranged a plan for An-Mei's mother, still in mourning for her original husband, to be raped by Wu-Tsing. The stigma left An-Mei's mother with no choice but to marry Wu-Tsing and become his new but lowly Fourth Wife. She laterlost her baby son to SecondW i f e,wh o c l ai m ed th e b o y a s h e r ow n c h il d t o e n su r e h er pl a ce i n th e household. Second Wife also tried to win over An-mei upon her arrival in Wu-Tsing's mansion, giving her a necklace made of "pearls" that her mother later revealed were actually opaque glass orbs by crushing one with her foot.Wu-Tsing is a highly superstitious man, and Second Wife took advantage of this weakness by making false suicide attempts and threatening to haunt him as a ghost if he did not let her have her way. According to Chinese tradition, a person's soul comes back after three days to settle scores with the living. Wu-Tsing, therefore, was afraid to face the ghost of an angry or scorned wife. After Second Wife used a suicide attempt to prev ent An-Mei and her mother from getting their own household, An-Mei's mother successfully committed suicide herself. She timed her death so that her soul would be due to return on the first day of the new year, a day when all debts must be settled lest the debtor suffer great misfortune. With this in mind, Wu-Tsing promised to treat his Fourth Wife's children, including An-Mei, as if they were his very own flesh and blood by an honored First Wife. When Second Wife attempted to disrupt this, An-Mei crushed the fake pearl necklace Second Wife gave beneath herfeet to show her awareness of all the deception and to symbolize her new power over Second Wife, who now fears and realizes the bad karma she brought upon herself.An-Mei later immigrates to America, marries, and gives birth to children. Hery o un g es t so n, Bi n g, d i es in a d r ow ni n g ac c id e nt a t a y ou n g ag e.Lindo JongLindo is a strong-willed woman, a trait her daughter Waverly attributes to her having been born in the year of the Horse. When Lindo was only twelve, she was forced to move in with a neighbor's young son, Huang Tyan Yu, through the machinations of the village matchmaker. She married him when she was sixteen. She soon realized that her husband was just a little boy at hea rt and had no sexual interest in her. Lindo began to care for her husband as a brother, but her cruel mother-in-law expected Lindo to produce a grandson. She restricted most of Lindo's daily activities, eventually ordering her to remain on bed rest until she could conceive and deliver a child.Determined to escape this unfortunate situation, Lindo carefully observed the other people in the household and eventually formed a clever plan to escape her marriage without dishonoring herself or her family. She managed to trick her young husband's family that he was actually fated to marry another girl who was already pregnant with his "spintual child", and that her marriage to Huang Tyan Yu would only bring bad luck to the family. In reality, the girl in question was a mere servant in the household and indeed pregnant, but abandoned by her lover.Freed of her first marriage, Lindo decided to immigrate to America. She married a Chinese-American man named Tin Jong and has three children: sons Winston and Vincent, and daughter Waverly.Lindo experiences regret over losing some of her Chinese identity by living so long in America (she is treated like a tourist on a visit to China), however she expresses concern that Waverly's American upbringing has caused a barrier between them.Ying-Ying "Betty" St. ClairFrom a young age, Ying-Ying is told by her wealthy and conservative family that Chinese girls should be meek and gentle. She begins to develop a passive personality and repress her feelings as she grows up in Wuxi. Ying-Ying marries a charismatic man named Lin Xiao, not out oflove, but because she believed it was her fate. Her husband is revealed to be abusive and openly has extramarital relationships with other women. When Ying-Ying discovers that she is pregnant around the time her husband abandons her, she takesrevenge by killing his son before he is born and moving in with her poor relatives in the country.After ten years, she moves to the city where she meets an American man named Clifford St. Clair. He falls in love with her, but Ying-Ying cannot express the strong emotion after her first marriage. He courts her for four years before she agrees to marry him after learning that Lin Xiao had died, which she takes as the proper sign to move on. She allows him to control most aspects of her life, mistranslating her words and actions, and even changing her name to "Betty." They give birth to two children, one daughter, Lena and a stillborn son.Ying-Ying is horrified when she realizes that Lena has inherited her passive behaviors and trapped herself in a loveles s marriage with a controlling husband. She finally resolves to tell her daughter her story in the hope that she will be able to break free from the same passivity that ruined most of her young life back in China.[edit] DaughtersJing-Mei "June" WooJing-Mei has never fully understood her mother and seems directionless in life. During June's childhood, her mother used to tell her that she could be anything she wants; however, she particularly wanted her daughter to be gifted, like June's frenemy Waverly. At the beginning of the novel, June is chosen to replace her mother's seat in the Joy Luck Club after her mother's death. At the end of the novel, June is still trying to deal with her mother's death, and she visits China to see the twin half-sisters whom her mother had been forced to abandon when the Japanese attacked China.R o se Hs u Jo r da nRose is somewhat passive and is a bit of a perfectionist. She marries a doctor, Ted Jordan. After a malpractice suit, Ted has a mid-life crisis and decides to leave Rose, who he married, in part, to spite his mother. When Ted comes for the divorce papers, she finds her voice and tells him that he can't just throw her out of his life, comparing herself to weeds in his garden, once so beloved, now unkempt and filthy. She wants to hire a good lawyer and fight for possession of the house, which she eventually wins.Waverly JongWaverly is an independent-minded and intelligent woman, but is annoyed by her mother's constant cnticism. Well into her adult life, she finds herself restrained by her subconscious fear of letting her mother down. During theirc h i ld h o o d,J u ne a n d W a v e r l y b e c o m e c h i l d h o o d r i v a l s;t h e i r m o t h e r s compared their daughters accomplishments. Waverly was once a gifted chess champion, but quit after arguing with her mother, who used her daughters talent to show off.Lena St. ClairLena's husband, Harold, demands financial "equality" in their marriage. They are co-workers, but Lena is an associate while Harold is a partner, so he has a larger salary than she does. However, he insists that all household expenses be divided equally between them. Harold believes that by making everything equal, they can make their love equal as well, but Lena is frustrated with her life .[edit] Table of contents(Name of chapter is followed by the name of the narrator whose perspective is used for that chapter)[edit] Feathers from a Thousand Li Away"The Joy Luck Club," Jing-mei "June" Woo"Scar," An-Mei Hsu"The Red Candle," Lindo Jong"The Moon Lady," Ying-Ying St. Clair[edit] The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates"Rules of the Game," Waverly Jong"The Voice from the Wall," Lena St. Clair"Half and Half," Rose Hsu Jordan"Two Kinds," Jing-mei "June" Woo[edit] American Translation"Rice Husband," Lena St. Clair"Four Directions," Waverly Jong"Without Wood," Rose Hsu Jordan"Best Quality," Jing-mei "June" Woo[edit] Queen Mother of the Western Skies "Magpies," An-mei Hsu"Waiting Between the Trees," Ying-Ying St. Clair "Double Face," Lindo Jong"A Pair of Tickets," Jing-mei "June" Woo。
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Book Review
Joy Luck Club is a famous and popular book and it has a lasting effect.
This novel describes the experience of four Chinese women who migrate to America and their daughters born in America. It introduces four different kinds of conflict between mothers and daughters. Every mother has a period of unhappy marriage and so does her daughter. In order to make their marriage looks happy apparently, their have to tolerate their husband. Finally, with the support and encourage from their mothers, they start to pursue their real happiness.
All the four mothers wereborn in China. One of mothers was a child bride because her family couldn't afford her, she was sold to a rich family. The old lady in this rich family wanted to have a child but his son didn't like this child bride. The mother finally escaped the family after her husband had a baby with his servant.
Another mother married with a handsome childe but she was ignored after the marriage. Her husband dated with other girls and enraged her. She wanted to revenge him but has no ideas and the only thing she could do is take away his son, however, she forget that son is all she had. After the dead of her son, she seemed die too. The other mothers are all unfortunate.
Their daughters are born under the atmosphere of American culture while they are educated by their mother's Chinese style's methods. They don't like their mothers' teaching style and can't tolerate keeping doing things their mothers ask. They think their mothers are not respect them.
One of the daughters live together with her husband but they pay their expense on average. Although she is not willing to pay on average and hate the method which use money clearly, she still have to agree this kind of way. When her mother visits her, she talks out of her real thoughts finally. After that, she breaks with her husband and then finds her true love.
They has Chinese modesty and obedience and they have on ideas about their
American husbands and American lives, it is the essential reason of the failure of their marriage. We can discover Chinese Americans' psychology and concept.
From the novel, we can clearly understand the cultural difference between China and America. In China, the relationship between mothers and daughters are intimate and harmonious. If a daughter doesn't follow her mother's will, it must be considered to be disrespectful. On the contrary, children and parents are equal in America and children have their own ideas and thoughts.
I think of my mother after reading the book, she seems strict on me and hopes me aware of lots of knowledge but I am very disgusted with this kind of her thought and I never follow her will. We often squabble each other but after the quarrelling, I always be regrettable and I know what she does and hopes is just want me to grow up better. When I am growing up, I gradually understand her and our relationship becomes more and more harmony480.
All the time, we know less about Chinese Americans, This book helps us know more about this aspect.。