unit 2 two kinds

Introduction of The Joy Luck Club(3)
The different points of view enable us to look at the bittersweet mother-daughter relations from different angles. The mothers and daughters treat one another cautiously小心的, playing a game of love and fear, need and rejection.
Introduction of The Joy Luck Club(2)
•It tells stories about four pairs of mothers and daughters---Suyuan Woo and Jing-mei (June); Anmei Hsu and Rose; Lindo Jong and Waverly; Ying-ying St. Clair and Lena. These stories are told by seven voices, those of the mothers and daughters except for Suyuan Woo, who is dead when the story begins in the book.
“Two Kinds” is fiction. Although
this passage is taken from a novel 长篇小说, it can be read as a complete short story. It has a complete plot of its own.
Her father, John Tan, was an electrical电 力的 engineer and Baptist minister基督教 牧师 who came to America to escape the turmoil混乱 of the Chinese Civil War. Her mother, Daisy, had divorced an abusive虐待的 husband in China. She was forced to leave her children behind when she escaped on the last boat to leave Shanghai before the Communist takeover in 1949. Her marriage to John Tan produced three children, Amy and her two brothers.
• In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature故事片 film. The screenplay电影 剧本 was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass.
Historian and writer James Truslow Adams coined创造 the phrase “American Dream” in his 1931 book Epic of America美国史诗 “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. … It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately天生的 capable 有能力的, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous偶然的 circumstances of birth or position."
generations
b/w two
b/w two
cultures
A conflict
The mother‟s attempt to change her daughter into a prodigy天才 and the daughter‟s resistance反抗 to such change represent a bittersweet relationship between mother and daughter and a sharp conflict between two generations
Introduction of The Joy Luck Club(4)
The mother-daughter relationships are a mixture of love and hostility敌意, expectations期望 and disappointments, conflict and reconciliation和好. When the daughters become older and more mature, they begin to reconsider their identity身 份 and reevaluate their cultural heritage遗产. They discover that their mothers are “in their bones”, and that heritage继承物 is not something they can ignore and shake off easily.
What is the meaning of
“two kinds”?
Part I
(Para.1-3)
story
the
(Para 4幻灯片 28 to 76) the middle of the story (6subsections小单位)
Part III
(Para 77 to 93) the end of the story (2subsections)
The beginning part of the story provides the reader with some background information. It tells abut the mother and her hopes for her daughter. This paves铺 the way for the development of the conflict between the daughter and the mother.
Introduction of The Joy Luck Club(1)
•The book comprises包含 a series of short-story-like vignettes小插 图 that move back and forth in time and space, between the lives of four Chinese women in pre1949 China and their Americanborn daughters in California.
The Bonesetter's Daughter
(2001).
The conflicting plot drawn from her own experiences
Tragedy struck the Tan family when Amy„s father and oldest brother both died of brain tumors肿瘤 within a year. Mrs. Tan moved her surviving children to Switzerland瑞士, where Amy finished high school, but by this time mother and daughter were in constant连续的 conflict.
The
Joy
Luck Club
Her first book, won her The National Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Award in 1989.
The Kitchen God„s Wife
(1991)灶王爷的老婆 two books for children, The Moon Lady嫦娥 and The Chinese Siamese Cat 中国波 斯猫 two novels The Hundred Secret Senses (1995) and
In this part (Paras. 12-20) we learn that the mother was trying very hard to train her daughter to be a genius. As the tests got more difficult, the daughter lost heart. She said, “…something inside of me began to die. I hate the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations.” She decided that she would not let her mother change her. This change of attitudes would lead to the gradual development of the conflict.