The Joy Luck Club喜福会.ppt

The Joy Luck Club;;Jingmeis mother The founder of the Joy Luck Club,a group of women who came together once a week to play mahjong Lost her twin daughters in China/her heart scar Took great expectations of Jingmei and hoped her daughter growing up as her will; Suyuan Woo is a strong and willful woman who refuses to focus on her hardships. Instead, she struggles to create happiness and success where she finds it lacking. ; Suyuan shares many characteristics with her fellow mothers in the Joy Luck Club: fierce love for her daughter, often expressed as criticism; a distress at her daughter’s desire to shake off her Chinese identity in favor of an American one; and a fear that she may be alienated from her daughter either because of her own actions or because of their divergent ages and cultural upbringings.;A typical banana man Was born in America/Not a traditional Chinese girl In heart,she believed she was an American Advocated freedom and possessed a spirit of independence;Little June; She speaks both for herself and for her recently deceased mother, Suyuan. Jing-mei also bridges America and China. When she travels to China, she discovers the Chinese essence within herself, thus realizing a deep connection to her mother that she had always ignored. She also brings Suyuan’s story to her long-lost twin daughters, and, once reunited with her half-sisters, gains an even more profound understanding of who her mother was.;