The Joy Luck Club
---Amy tan
Amy Tan
Born on February 19, 1952, is a Chinese American.
In 1989, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club.
Tan has written several other books, including The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter , The Opposite of Fate and Saving Fish From Drowning.
Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994)
Setting
Language: English with occasional Mandarin and Cantonese words and accent.
Point of View : Point of view in The Joy Luck Club shifts from narrator to narrator. Each narrators in the first person, and sometimes an event is narrated twice so that we get more than one perspective.
Protagonist and Plot
Symbol: Suyun’ pendant; Lena’s vase; Lindo’ s candle
Theme
Conclusion
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan’s parents, both Chinese immigrants, lived in various town in California.
Her father and brother died when she was in her early teens. During this period, learned that her mother had been married before and she left behind 3 daughters, whom she would not see again for nearly 40 years.
Her mother was suffering from a serious illness, and they took a trip to China after her mother recovered. Amy tan met her half-sister at last.
back
Protagonist
Suyun Woo and Jing-mei(June) Woo
Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong
An-mei Hsu and Rose Hsu
Ying-ying St. Clair and Lena St. Clair
There are four mother-daughter pairs in the novel, mothers are the first generation immigrants, and the daughters are born in America.
Playing piano :when Suyun demands the little Jingmei to play piano, Jingmei shouts to her mother, “You can’t make me !” Moreover, Jingmei cried
that she wish she isn’t Suyun’ s daughter and
Suyun isn’t her mother.
Plot
Jing-mei: she promised herself that she
would not allow her mother to try to twist
her into what she was not.
Suyun: she always believe that
Jing-mei could have e a skilled
pianist if she had tried.
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