Do you have a mother Do you totally not understand her ever Do you love her Do you sometimes hate her Do you have dreams Wishes Desires Do you feel like youre always falling short of your parents expectations ID: 672903
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The Joy Luck ClubSlide2
Have you been, or will you ever be, a confused teenager?
Do you have a mother? Do you totally not understand her, ever? Do you love her? Do you sometimes hate her?
Do you have dreams? Wishes? Desires?
Do you feel like you’re always falling short of your parents’ expectations?
Do you feel like you know what’s wrong in your life but you just can’t fix it?Slide3
Structure
Structure: Like a mahjong game, the novel includes four parts divided into four sections for a total of sixteen chapters. Each part begins with a short parable.
Parable: a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles.Slide4
Three mothers and four daughters share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes.
Vignette: a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or character and gives a strong impression about that character, an idea, setting, and/or object. It's a short, descriptive passage that's more about evoking meaning through imagery than it is about plot.Slide5
Setting
Time: 1920s-1980sPlace: China, San Francisco (Chinatown)Slide6
Characters
Mothers
Suyuan
Woo
An-Mei Hsu
Lindo
Jong
Ying-Ying “Betty” St. Clair
Daughters
Jing-Mei “June” Woo
Rose Hsu Jordan
Waverly
Jong
Lena St. ClairSlide7
Themes
The challenges of cultural translationThe power of storytellingThe problem of immigrant identity
Visions of America
Control or lack of control over one’s destiny
Sexism and gender roles
Sacrifices for loveSlide8
Amy Tan (1952- )
Born in Oakland, CA
Her father and brother both died of brain tumors within eight months of each other.
Amy learned about her mother's former marriage to an abusive man in China, of their four children and how her mother was forced to leave her children from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai.
Joy Luck Club
published in 1989Slide9
"Amy Tan's special accomplishment in this novel is not her ability to show us how mothers and daughters hurt each other, but how they love and ultimately forgive each other.“—Nancy Willard