...[pic] Chinese Traditional Woman Image --- the Chinese Mother in Joy Luck Club by 陆婉霖 A thesis presented to the School of English Studies of Xi’an International Studies University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts May 18, 2011 Class: 2007-19 Advisor: 常莉 西安外国语大学 毕 业 论 文 开 题 报 告 |姓名 |陆婉霖 |性别 |女 |班级 |2007-19 |学号 |0701011921 | |论文题目： | |Chinese Traditional Woman Image --- the Chinese Mother in Joy Luck Club | |《喜福会》中中国式母亲体现出的中国传统女性形象 | |任务起止日期: 2010 年9 月1 日 至 2011 年 5 月27日 | |论文主要内容及参考文献： | |本文从跨文化交际和文学的角度对谭恩美的小说《喜福会》进行了分析。通过认知解读传统文化中的女性角色以及书中主人公的遭遇，使读者理解| |书中上一代母亲们的自我认知历程以及在此过程中所形成的价值观。文中展现了四个母亲和四个女儿的成长背景及人物性格，概述了每个人物所| |经历的不同境遇，分析了单独事件的文化原因及影响，从而呈现出典型的中国传统女性形象。文章从不同角度举出例子概括这一普遍的社会现象| |并且分析了母女冲突的原因并且从积极的角度对其结果给予了分析与展望。 | |参考文献： ...
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...do. Sometimes kids don’t want to live up the expectations of their parents because they can’t live it up to the fullest. Like in Amy Tan's “Rules of the Game” and Bissinger’s “Dreaming of Heroes”, the kids parents wanted them to meet the expectations they wanted them to achieve, but they couldn’t live it up. In my next few paragraphs, I’m going to tell how the parents in those chapters affect their children life. In “Rules of the Game” from Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club, Lindo Jong wanted Waverly, her daughter, to learn how to play chess because it relates a lot to life. Waverly didn’t want...
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...side or the other, and often on both sides” (Xu 13). With various interwoven events happening among these four Chinese immigrant families, the conflicts and misunderstandings between mothers and daughters seem to be the guideline throughout the whole novel. Amy Tan uses stories narrated by the mothers and daughters to display their daily contradictions and their inner thoughts, which are the mothers’ strong desire to control their daughters’ fate; contradicting opinions on interracial relationships and identity crises. All these “battles” could be found both in these four daughters’ childhood, and in their adulthood as well. The Chinese mothers try so hard to pass on their culture and instill Chinese character, but their efforts are resisted strongly by their daughters to different degrees. The daughters try to make their mothers accept ways of life ingrained with American features, which is also insufferable to mothers. The greatly different family backgrounds, different ways of thinking and identity crisis between these two generations contribute a lot to their contradictions, as well as generation and cultural gaps. Although the author provides a vivid description of the conflicts between the two generations, “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”(Willard 12). The understanding and care mothers and daughters give each other is deeply buried...
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...In Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club, the author utilizes symbols and juxtaposition to show the importance of heritage and their mother-daughter bond in the novel. In the chapter Double Face, Lindo reflects on her circumstances that led her to America and her wish for her daughter to become different from her, along with her relationship and how out of touch she thinks she is with her daughter, but comes to realize that they are both very similar women and that they both have influenced each other more than they have realized. Tan particularly brings up the women’s noses to use as a symbol of their relationship as mother and daughter. When looking at themselves in the mirror, Lindo recalls a memory of when she broke her nose after arriving...
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...Amy Tan’s novel Joy Luck Club, illustrate the life of four Chinese mothers and daughters and also the conflict between Chinese and American culture. Even if they all are Chinese, the daughters are born and raised in America, they don’t have the same miserable, desperate and hard life as there mother had back in China. The point of view of the mothers and daughters is very different in the story. All the daughters think about if their Chinese culture might have created problems for them, neither of the daughters can deny their mother nor their culture, but they all do have some issues about their mother attitude and ambition. For example Jing-Mei she was forced to play piano, “my mother believed you could be anything you want in America” (p.132: Two Kinds) and show the talent and the concern that she didn’t had, and also she was always compared with Waverley’s success. Even if Waverley was successful in chess game she also had problems with her mothers affected conduct, "Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess.” ( p.99: Rules of the Game). Of course Jing-Mei and Waverly are not the only one to suffer their mothers ambition for their future but they are the one whom mothers were competing in a secret and discreet way. This shows the Chinese personality mothers. Beside these two cases the other personalities that Chinese mothers have are that they don’t want their daughter to marry an American man because they...
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...Yamei Chen 1/16/2012 The Joy Luck Club, I’ve watched that movie many times, when I was a lot younger and also recently, because of my age, what I’ve experienced in life, each time I viewed the movie, my mind set are different as well, yet everything I watch this movie it brings tears into my eyes. When I was younger viewing the movie, which was very close to reality to what actually happen to women in China in the time, I think now when I view the movie, I’ve missed the whole point of the movie, it was really describing the relationship between mother and daughter in different time zone and culture background. “As cultural institutions, mass media often reflect some aspects of the society in which they operate. The critically acclaimed film The Joy Luck Club (1993) reflects diaspora experiences of Chinese immigrant women and depicts intergenerational tensions between Chinese mothers and their American-born Chinese daughters. It also reflects the struggles, dilemmas, and conflicts in the search for identity and self-development among Chinese and Chinese American women.” (Yea-Wen, C. (2007). The storyline is centered upon Jing-Mei Woo also referred as June, who struggles to deal with the recent death of her mother Suyuan Woo, throughout the movie. The movie takes place at a reception held on June’s behalf before her trip to China to meet her twin half-sisters who were abandoned by their mother many years ago. June struggles with her mother’s past which she never fully understood...
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...America. However, a realization hits that coming to America does not suddenly ease life but rather puts their daughters in more circumstances where sacrifice is also necessary. Amy Tan’s novel , The Joy Luck Club, provides thorough examples of personal sacrifice...
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...Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank to accompany A First Look at Communication Theory Sixth Edition Em Griffin Wheaton College prepared by Glen McClish San Diego State University and Emily J. Langan Wheaton College Published by McGrawHill, an imprint of The McGrawHill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright Ó 2006, 2003, 2000, 1997, 1994, 1991 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. The contents, or parts thereof, may be reproduced in print form solely for classroom use with A First Look At Communication Theory provided such reproductions bear copyright notice, but may not be reproduced in any other form or for any other purpose without the prior written consent of The McGrawHill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. PREFACE Rationale We agreed to produce the instructor’s manual for the sixth edition of A First Look at Communication Theory because it’s a first-rate book and because we enjoy talking and writing about pedagogy. Yet when we recall the discussions we’ve had with colleagues about instructor’s manuals over the years, two unnerving comments stick with us: “I don’t find them much help”; and (even worse) “I never look at them.” And, if the truth be told, we were often the people making such points! With these statements in mind, we have done some serious soul-searching about the texts that so many teachers—ourselves...
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