(精品)two kinds 全文复习加赏析.ppt

Amy TanAmy TanLesson 2 About Amy Tan&Joy Luck ClublThe Joy Luck Club is Amy Tans first and most successful novellAbout the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and their American-born daughters in Californial“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)Content1Warm-UpWarm-Up2Background IntroductionBackground Introduction345Rhetorical device&assignmentRhetorical device&assignmentGenre&organizationGenre&organizationDetails to the textDetails 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 childlWhy did the Jingmei think she is a pleading child before?When she was a child,she only saw one side and couldnt understand her mother,regarding her mothers hope as tormenting pressure and regard herself as pleading child.pleading child why the mother placed extraordinarily high hopes on the daughter?lFirst，she believed one could be anything one wanted to be in AmericaWhether she was aware of it or not，she was influenced by and believed in the American DreamlSecondly，she was competing with her best friend Lindo，who had a smart daughterlThirdly，she had lost everything in China and had come to America with the determination to make things betterShe was transferring her own hopes to her daughter pleading child Conflict between mother and daughterlMother:la Chinese Shirley Templelto be a prodigylto make the girl take piano lessonslperformance in the talent show,high expectationlthe most fierce quarrellgiving up hopelDaughter:lexcitedllosing interestldisliked and being angrylbad performancelbeing disobedient&rebelliouslbe herself pleading childOnly two kinds of daughters These words clearly reveal the mothers firm belief in parental authorityHer traditional Chinese views convinced her that daughters should listen to and obey their mothers commandsShe was aware that American daughters were not obedientShe wanted her daughter to have a Chinese character in the American circumstances.pleading childlove and hostilityexpectations and disappointmentsconflicts and reconciliation A Bittersweet Relationship lWhy did the daughter feel proud and see the piano as a trophy she had won back?lThe piano had become a symbol.When she was forced to learn to play it，it was a symbol of her misery and her mothers dreams.When her mother offered it to her for her thirtieth birthday，the offer meant forgiveness and reconciliation.Now she heard her mother praising her.Her mothers appreciation was like a trophy that she had won at long last.Perfectly contentedlWhat is the epiphany of Jingmei?Now as she realized how her mother loved and appreciated her,she felt perfectly contented.She also discover that her mothers is“in her bones”,and that heritage is not something she can ignore and shake off easily.Epiphany(顿悟）顿悟）A moment of insight,discovery of revelation,by which the characters view is greatly altered.QuotesA mothers love for her child is like nothing else in the world.It knows no law,no pity,it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.-Agatha Christie lMothers and daughters are closest,when daughters become mothers.-Author UnknownMUM,THANK YOU!MUM,THANK YOU!