喜福会(the joy luck club)

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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.
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
主讲人：
Presented by group 5
Theme & Conclusion
Introduction
丁思齐
包昀培
张禄
The Main Conflict 王选
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Content
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张雨剑
Background & Characters
Plot 1 & 2
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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.
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Amy Tan
谭恩美 1952. 2. 19~
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an American woman writer Chinese descent a resident of Sausalito, California
English and linguistics: bachelor & master & doctor
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Background
Structure
Article clue
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Biblioteka Baidu
Relationship
Story background
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Relationship
Suyuan & June
Family
Lindo & Waverly
Four stories between four mothers and four daughters
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Part:2
Background & Characters
Name:Bao Yunpei
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Background
Structure
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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
• 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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➢ 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.
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Novels
1989
The Joy Luck Club
1991
The Kitchen God's Wife
1995
The Hundred Secret Senses
2001
The Bonesetter's Daughter
2005
Saving Fish from Drowning
2012
Rule for Virgins
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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.
Notable Book
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Key words
The Joy Luck Club 1989
The Joy Luck Club
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 Adapted into a film in 1994
the literary editor for West, Los Angeles Times' Sunday magazine
a member of the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band Biographical works: double identity; cultural difference between mother and daughter
Article clue
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Relationship
Story background
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Structure
Part 1
Contain 4 stories
Part 2
Contain 4 stories
Part 3
Contain 4 stories
Part 4
Contain 4 stories
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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.
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Article clue
➢ The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum, it is too beautiful to eat.
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.
2013
The Value of Amazement
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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
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
• After a malpractice suit, Ted has a mid-life crisis and decides to leave Rose.
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Background
Structure
Article clue
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Relationship
Story background
• An-Mei's mother committed suicide herself. An-Mei later immigrates to America, marries, and gives birth to seven children.
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Rose
• Rose marries Ted Jordan, who really loved her.
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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.
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 & Novel: The Joy Luck Club
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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.