Lesson2 two kinds-luo 现代大学英语精读教材.ppt

Two Kinds;The author ;About the author ;About the author ;About the author ;About the author ;About the author ;About the author ;About the author ;About the author ;About the author ;About the author ;About the author ;About the Novel The Joy Luck Club;About the Novel The Joy Luck Club;are ambitious for their daughters, but while they expect them to succeed in America, they want them to remain Chinese. The daughters consider themselves American and regard their mothers a source of embarrassment, for they speak fractured English, behave with Chinese manners, and wear funny-looking dresses with high, stiff collars and slits up the sides. They want to be different from their mothers, and break loose from their mothers’ cultural gravity. They yearn to leave tradition behind.;About the Novel The Joy Luck Club;After Suyuan Woo’s death, her daughter Jing-mei (June), is invited to sit in her mother’s seat at the mah-jongg table. At first she feels uncomfortably out of place in this world from which she has struggled to distance herself. As the aunts talk over the mah-jongg game about themselves and their daughters, she begins to see her mother’s generation in a different light. Finally the aunts inform Jing-mei that the two Half –sisters her mother had been forced to abandon during the war are still alive and are ;living in Shanghai . In the last section of the book Jing-mei tells about he trip to China to be united with the two sisters. “The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong border and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different. I can feel the skin On my forehead tingling, my blood rushing through a new course, my bones aching with a familiar old pain. And I think, my mother was right. I am becoming Chinese.” ;Plot ;Epiphany ; Theme As we know, the theme shows what the story is about. The theme of a story is the general meaning, the central and dominating idea that unifies and controls the total work. Yet, it is usually easier to summa