谁有 喜福会的 英文读书笔记

谁有 喜福会的 英文读书笔记
谁有 喜福会的 英文读书笔记

谁有 喜福会的 英文读书笔记
The Joy Luck Club,by Amy Tan,is a story about two generations of Chinese American women.The first generation consists of the mothers living in pre-1949 China.These women are Suyuan Woo,An-mei Hsu,Lindo Jong,and Ying-ying St.Clair.They established the Joy Luck Club,which was a small group that discussed their homeland and troubles,but still enjoying the delicious food and each other鈥檚 company.The second generation of daughters born in America are Jing-mei "June" Woo,Rose Hsu Jordan,Waverly Jong,and Lena St.Clair.
Each chapter is either a mother or a daughter talking about their experiences of growing up in either China or America.It is quite obvious that the women who grew up in China have much different viewpoints on their lifestyle than their daughters who grew up in America.The women who grew up in China had suffered great hardships yet they all took it to heart and kept it within themselves.At that time,little girls were basically worthless while little boys were prided upon in China.The book continues on with the stories of these women鈥檚 daughters,telling stories of their lives being raised by mothers who were immigrants,and being integrated into American society.Chinese mothers try to pass on their values,ideas,and goal onto the second generation.Great fortune has come to the members of the Joy Luck Club through their harsh lives,and they only want their daughters to understand what it takes to succeed in life.
The Joy Luck Club members were all friends who have formed decent lives for themselves in America.All of the daughters in this book were raised with high expectations,even the mothers while they were in China.At times,these high desires may have done more harms than good,because this is contrary to an overall idea that girls in China were not a great gift to their parents.Each member of the Joy Luck Club was a mother that tries her best to cultivate her daughter in the way she believes is right.Unfortunately,it works not as good as they planned.
Doubtlessly,these Chinese mothers take great pride in their traditions and their children.A Chinese mother is not easily pleased.The women of the Joy Luck Club were competitive amongst each other when it came to their children鈥檚 successes,only wanted their own daughters to understand why they should be respectful of their Chinese culture and grateful for their American opportunities.Later,another daughter of the Joy Luck Club,Waverly,disgusted her mother when she decided to marry a Caucasian man.Clair remembers when her mother kept having a feeling to rearrange furniture,only to find out she was pregnant.An-mei Hsu said that no matter how much she raised her daughter to be more American,the more she became Chinese,desiring nothing and swallowing other people鈥檚 pride.In other hand,Jing-Mei(also called June)鈥檚 mother,Suyuan,wanted her daughter to be a Chinese version of the 鈥減erfect child鈥 during the 1950s.Avoiding trouble is also an instinct for the Chinese,so mothers warned their daughters repeatedly to behave themselves,and go forward exactly through the road chosen by their mothers.She created the Joy Luck Club,hoped to bring luck to her family and friends and finding joy.She had already deceased when the film begins.Jing-Mei (Also called June),takes her mother's place in the Joy Luck Club when her mother dies.Jing-Mei searches for her own identity and lacks confidence.Her mother just won鈥檛 cease comparing her to other people's children,particularly Lindo鈥檚 daughter,Waverly.Jing-Mei had always felt uncomfortable with her mother's Chinese lecture ways.She is also used as her mother鈥檚 replacement in a sense she takes her mother鈥檚 position in the club.She wanted to be happy so that鈥檚 what she was going to be.She becomes the victim in the story.Rose Hsu Jordan marries her husband Ted even though her mother tells her not to.She started the club because she does not want to forget her roots,culture and she believes that this club will bring the women happiness in this new strange land.Similar to when Suyuan made the decision that she was not going to be victim during the Japanese invasion when she was a fugitive.
In old China,most of the women had no opportunities to choose their husbands.Instead,their parents often planned arranged marriages,even when the girl or boy might only be 6 or 7 years old.They often consulted a local "matchmaker" on the issue of marriage for their children.Some Chinese were very superstitious about things like marriage.
Amy Tan was born in Oakland,California on February 19,1952.Her family lived within many northern California residents before they finally settled in Santa Clara.Before Amy Tan became a best-selling author,she worked writing speeches for business executives.She received her bachelors and masters degree鈥檚 in English and linguistics from San Jose State University.The novel,The Joy Luck Club,was her first books.The Joy Luck Club shows the relationships between mother and daughter.What one wants and what we are willing to do is to be accepted.It鈥檚 only about what does lives mean if tragedies repeated themselves again and again.
In The Joy Luck Club,Amy Tan explores the different mother-daughter relationships between the characters,and at a lower level,relationships between friends,lovers,and even enemies.In this book,she lists the conflicting views and the stories of both sides,providing the reader with an understanding of the mentalities of both mother and daughter,and why each one is the way she is.Amy Tan explores the difficulties in growing up as a Chinese-American and the problems when integrating into modern American society.The Chinese-American daughters try their best to become 鈥淎mericanized,鈥 at the same time abandoning their heritage while their mothers were disturbed by it.They didn鈥檛 try to comprehend their culture,which was a big part of understanding their traditional Chinese mothers.The swan feather in the beginning of the book was a symbol of all hopes and dreams that the mother wanted to give to her daughter.Thus Amy Tan is very successful in expressing the inner world of each character.As far as I am concerned,The Joy Luck Club is a worthy book not only for Chinese readers.