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Lesson 2 About Amy Tan Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is Amy Tans first and most successful novel About the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and their American-born daughters in California “Two kinds”, which is taken from it, is about the story of one of mothers and daughters: Suyuan Woo(吴夙愿) and Jing-mei(精美) Content 1 Warm-Up 2 Background Introduction 3 4 5 Rhetorical device assignment Genre organization Details to the text “Pleading child” was shorter but slower; “perfectly contented” was longer, but faster. And after I played them both few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song. pleading child Why did the Jingmei think she is a pleading child before? When she was a child, she only saw one side and couldn’t understand her mother, regarding her mother’s hope as tormenting pressure and regard herself as pleading child. pleading child why the mother placed extraordinarily high hopes on the daughter? First，she believed one could be anything one wanted to be in America．Whether she was aware of it or not，she was influenced by and believed in the American Dream． Secondly，she was competing with her best friend Lindo，who had a smart daughter． Thirdly，she had lost everything in China and had come to America with the determination to make things better．She was transferring her own hopes to her daughter．  pleading child  Conflict between mother and daughter Mother: a Chinese Shirley Temple to be a prodigy to make the girl take piano lessons performance in the talent show, high expectation the most fierce quarrel giving up hope Daughter: excited losing interest disliked and being angry bad performance being disobedient rebellious be herself  pleading chil