喜福会(the joy luck club)

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Structure
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Contain 4 stories
Part 2
Contain 4 stories
Part 3
Contain 4 stories
Part 4
Contain 4 stories
Four stories between four mothers and four daughters
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Name:Bao Yunpei
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Amy Tan
谭恩美
1952. 2. 19~
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Biographical works: double identity; cultural difference between mother and daughter
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Novels
1989 1991 1995 2001 2005 2012 2013
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Key words
The first and perhaps most well known of Amy Tan Translated into 35 languages, including Chinese Staying more than 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list Received the Commonwealth Gold Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award The Joy Luck Club 1989
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Lindo
• Lindo is a child bride when she was sixteen
• Lindo begin to rebel the bad life and successfully escape this unfortunate situation with a ticket to Shanghai. And finally, she comes to American.
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 mother's life in order to understand her own history and personality
李彬
Plot 3 & 4
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Tips:
30 ~ 35 minutes
5 minutes for asking questions
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1. Introduction
Author: Amy Tan
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Novel: The Joy Luck Club
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Awards
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Finalist National Book Award Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize Bay Area Book Reviewers Award Commonwealth Gold Award American Library Association's Notable Books American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults Booklist Editors Choice Finalist for the Orange Prize Nominated for the Orange Prize Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Audie Award: Best Non-fiction, Abridged Emmy Award Parents' Choice Award, Best Television Program for Children Shortlisted British Academy of Film and Television Arts award Shortlisted WGA Award, best screenplay adaptation Grammy Award Selected for the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read New York Times Notable Book
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Lena
• Lena‘s husband, Harold, is also her boss.
• Her husband insists that all household expenses be divided equally between them. Lena feels frustrated and powerless.
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The Kitchen God's Wife
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Saving Fish from Drowning
Rule for Virgins
The Value of Amazement
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June
• June has never fully understood her mother and seems directionless in life, and they lack communication. • June want to rebel her mother anywhere, even her marrige.
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Key words
an American woman writer
Chinese descent
a resident of Sausalito, California English and linguistics: bachelor & master & doctor the literary editor for West, Los Angeles Times' Sunday magazine a member of the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band
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Waverly
• Waverly likes to play the chess when she was young.
• she is fear of letting her mother down.
• June and Waverly become childhood rivals; their mothers constantly compared their daughter's development and accomplishments.
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The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum, it is too beautiful to eat. Then the woman and the swan sailed across an ocean many thousands of li wide, stretching their necks toward America. On her journey she cooed to the swan: "In America I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect American English. But when she arrived in the new country, the immigration officials pulled her swan away from her, leaving the woman fluttering her arms and with only one swan feather for a memory.
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Rose
• Rose marries Ted Jordan, who really loved her.
• After a malpractice suit, Ted has a mid-life crisis and decides to leave Rose.
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Anmei
• An-Mei is raised by her grandparents and other relatives during her early years in Ningbo • An-Mei’s mother was raped by WuTsing, she has no choice but to marry Wu-Tsing and become his Fourth Wife. • An-Mei's mother committed suicide herself. An-Mei later immigrates to America, marries, and gives birth to seven children.
Yingying & Lena
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Anmei & Rose
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Suyun
• Suyuan was the wife of an officer who work in Chongqing and was the mother of twin baby daughters when she was in China. • She lost her babies on the long journey to find her husband. She later remarries, comes to America and gives birth to another daughter.
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Adapted into a film in 1994
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Amy Tan & The Joy Luck Club
Based on Amy Tan’s mother and grandmother life experience Long conversations with her mother evolved into The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan
Presented by group 5百度文库
Introduction Theme & Conclusion
丁思齐 1 张禄 6 包昀培
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The Main Conflict
王选
张雨剑
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Relationship
Suyuan & June
Family
Lindo & Waverly
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Yingying
• Ying-Ying marries a charismatic man named Lin Xiao. But she get divorced.
• She moves to Shanghai and meets Clifford St. Clair. She marry him and moves to San Francisco.