The Joy Luck Club.喜福会观后感 英文.docVIP

The Joy Luck Club After seeing The Joy Luck Club that based?on?the?best?selling?nove by Amy Tan of the same name,I have many thoughts about love and confilicts between the four daughters and their mothers. The Joy Luck Club is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as the Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game. The first section, Feathers from a Thousand Li Away, introduces the Joy Luck Club through Jing-Mei Woo, whose late mother Suyuan Woo founded the Joy Luck Club, and focuses on the four mothers. Jing-Mei relates the story of how her mother Suyuan was the wife of an officer in the Kuomingtang during World War II and how she was forced to flee from her home in Kweilin and abandon her twin daughters. Suyuan later found out her first husband died, remarried to Jing-Meis father, and immigrated to the United States. Her mother and Jing-Meis father attempted to find Suyuans daughters, and Jing-Meis father assumed that Suyuan had given up hope. Jing-Mei, who has been asked to take her mothers place in the Joy Luck Club, learns from the other mothers that her half-sisters are alive and ask that Jing-Mei tell them about Suyuans death. The other three mothers relate the stories of their childhood. An-Mei Hsus story relates how her mother left her family to become the fourth concubine of Wu Tsing , a rich merchant, while An-Mei was raised by her maternal grandmother. Her mother returns only to cut off a piece of her flesh to cook a soup in hopes of healing An-Meis grandmother, though An-Me