谭恩美和她的喜福会.ppt

The Joy Luck ClubAnd the Writer
——英本十班李梦利
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. In 1987, after her mother returned to health, they traveled to China where Tan’s mother was reunited with her daughters and Tan met her half-sisters. The trip provided Tan with a fresh perspective on her mother and it served as the key inspiration for her first book, The Joy Luck Club.
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Each chapter is either a mother or a daughter talking about their experiences of growing up in either Chinaor 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, so their daughters were raised under the high expectation of their mothers. Each member tries her best to cultivate her daughter in the way she believes is right. Unfortunately, it works not as good as they planned. What’s more, the conflicts between two generations e more and more as the daughters grow up.
Obviously, the conflicts are caused by mothers’ and daughters’ generation gaps and growing backgrounds. The mothers grew up in China where  there are many traditions and rules to follow. However, the daughters grew up in San Francisco and live in an American way. In another way, it is also conflicts between the two cult