喜福会（the joy luck club） amy tan.ppt

Introduction of the author and the book Structure 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 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 American Translation Rice Husband, Lena St. Clair Four Directions, Waverly Jong Without Wood, Rose Hsu Jordan Best Quality, Jing-mei June Woo 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 Plot Summary The Joy Luck Club consists of sixteen interlocking stories. about the lives of four Chinese immigrant women and their four American-born daughters. In 1949, the four immigrants meet at the First Chinese Baptist Church in San Francisco and agree to continue to meet to play mah jong. They call their mah jong group the Joy Luck Club. The stories told in this novel revolve around the Joy Luck Club women and their daughters. Our understandings Mother-Daughter Relationship: Each mother-daughter pair struggles with cultural and generational differences. The daughters tend to see their mothers as old-fashioned, overbearing, out-of-touch, and even threatening. In turn, the mothers are exasperated over their daughters lack of understanding of Chinese culture, attitudes towards men, and satisfaction in unglamorous jobs. It is in moments of conflict with one another and with others that each mother or daughter realizes the validity of the others perspective. To some extent, they are able to step into one anothers skins. Our Understandings Mah Jong The mothers approach their daughters as they do the game of Mah Jong; they know the best strategy is