The Joy Luck Club tells about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and their struggling to understand each other. The film shows us these topics: the misunderstanding of love between the mothers and the daughters, the clash between the generations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity. Now I am going to show you my understanding of them, emphasizing on the first topic.
In many cases, we and those we love are easy to hurt each other because of the misunderstanding of love, the conflicts in generations and culture background, or unconsciousness.
Take Jingmei and her mother Suyuan as an example. When Suyuan demands the little Jingmei to play piano, Jingmei shouts to her mother, You can’t make me! Even Jingmei cried that she wish she isn’t Suyuan’s daughter and Suyuan isn’t her mother, and that she wishes she were the dead like the babies Suyuan abandoned in China. The sad expression on Suyuan’s face indicates that she is hurt deeply by her daughter’s innocent words.
This reminds me of my similar experience. Once I hurt my mother as Jingmei did. I didn’t mean to hurt her, but those wounding words just slip out of my mouth unconsciously. Often, we hate that why our parents don’t know my feelings, why they like to make us be something and totally unaware that what their children are. While the parents don’t know why all their sacrifices to the children can’t be paid off, even incite hatred. Actually, this is the generation gap that causes the misunderstanding. We don’t know the hardship our parents underwent before. They can’t understand what we are thinking. So misunderstandings appear.
Maybe as a child, Jingmei cannot comprehend what her remarks mean to Suyuan, and just want to show her grudge. But another main reason is the different backgrounds of Suyuan and Jingmei bare. Chinese parents always like to put all their hopes on the next generation for they are the generation full with hardship and pain. All they do just want the children to be better, but they ignore that whether their children can accept or not, not along a child born in America, influenced by the American’s individual freedom and knowing little about Chinese culture. The generation gap and culture conflict cause the misunderstanding of the mother and the daughter.
The other example is Waverly and her mother Lindo. Waverly tries her best to please Lindo in everything. Whether her mother approves or not becomes the master of all her choice. Even Waverly marries a Chinese man because Lindo likes Chinese, while she doesn’t love. Waverly doesn’t understand why Lindo disapprove or criticize whatever she has done. On the other side, Lindo thinks that her daughter is ashamed of her, which is her continual internal injury after Waverly’s winning that chess contest, when Waverly shouted to Lindo if Lindo wanted to show off, won the chest by herself. Every time, Lindo’s disagreement with or indifference to Waverly directly results from the thought that Waverly feels it shameful to be her daughter. Both of them deeply love each other, but in the meantime, they hostile and hurt one another. This is the way them get along with each other. Fortunately, they clear up their misunderstandings and discover themselves by communicating.
I am deeply moved by this scene:
Waverly Jong says to Lindo, sobbing,, You don"t know, you don"t know the power you have over me. One word from you, one look, and I"m four years old again, crying myself to sleep, because nothing I do can ever, ever please you. And after a short period of silence, Lindo smiles to Waverly with tears in her eyes, Now, you make me happy. Then they laugh heartily, teary-eyed with happiness.
Seeing the old Lindo bursts out laughing, like a child, and Waverly laughs joyfully, I sincerely feel delighted for them. Love needs communicating, understanding, and tolerance, which is what I learn from them.
Along with above mentioned, the struggle for the women to fight for equity is also brought to the surface. For instance, Ying-ying encourages her daughter Lena to escape an unhappy marriage, not repeating the same mistakes she made in her first marriage. And An-mei tells her daughter Rose to learn to shout at the unfair fate, and express her own will because Rose has lost herself in her marriage. These two cases reveal that the women begin to release themselves from the restrains of being oppressed by the men and the old-fashioned thoughts as well as some Chinese traditional characters. Eventually, the women find their true value and win their own happiness.
View from the whole film, the title, the Joy Luck Club may just be the old generation’s hope of better life for the next generation. On the whole, this is a movie made specifically for women. It is worth our appreciation.
当赏读完一本名著后，相信大家的视野一定开拓了不少，何不写一篇
Reading the novel is not the first time of my knowing The Joy Luck Club. When I watched the film, the meaning of the title, the theme of the novel, the reason for the arrangement of stories from four mothers and their daughters and other important things were all unknown to me. But I knew that was my type for it is about feelings between mothers and daughters, and especially chinese speaking Eglish.
Amy Tan, a Chinese American writer, is the author of the book in which she explors the mother-daughter relationships. Originally, the relationships between mother and daughter seem to be quite complex in a family but in Amy Tan"s work, it is perfectly typical for its portrayal of conflicts between the traditional Chinese mothers speaking shabby English and the open wholly Americanized daughters who just wear a Chinese face but speak fluent English. I never think it is richly dramatical, and instead these kinds of conflicts, in fact, truly ecists in many Chinese immigrants" family. The novel is written impressively and deeply especially, I think, in understanding of mothers" love for their daughters for reasons that the previous experience of her with her mother provided the basis for her novel. It is said that the exprience of anthor is similar to that of Jingmei woo. Maybe, the novel implies the deep and complex feelings of auther for her mother and her closest relatives in China.
It gives me a greatly deep impression that the book is begun with Feathers From a Thousand LI Away. It penetrates the mothers" hope and love for their daughters through a swan"s feather. Through the old woman"s words In America I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband"s belch. Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect American English. And over there she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow! She will know my meaning, because I will give her this swana creature that became more than what was hoped for. and the mothers" former tragic sufferings, we will find that all the mothers are in hope of their daughters never suffering from their sufferings. And the mothers waited, year after year, for the day, they could tell their daughters it is their hope through a feather of the swan in perfect American English. At first, it is a little difficult to understand the reason for these words. However, through the whole novel, in fact, you will find the old woman represents the four mothers, the feather of swan embodies the hope of mothers for their daughters. These sentences show implicitly the feelings of author and her understandings for mothers. In fact, in the Joy Luck Club, the feather indeed is gained by Jingmei Woo. And from the beginning to the end,the feather has been existing.
Only if one high-quality novel, like a perfect verse, needs you spending much time reading once more, you will understand something. I thought that the novel is loosely plotted and is in disorder. But the fact verifies that I am wrong. Through the whole story, the novel begins with the death of Jingmei"s mother and ends in Jingmei visiting China to see the twin-half sisters whom her mother had been forced to abandon when the Japanese attacked China many years ago. What"s more, in detail, the stories of four mothers and four daughters have relative connections in theme about love between them and the mothers" hope for their daughters. And the theme shows the comflicts and harmonization between different cultures.Then I think why the author titled the novel Joy Luck Club . I am puzzled by it and the purpose of writer. The name of club made mention of by Jingmei"s mother. And the author directly titling the novel the name of their meeting implies her feelings for her mother. I can guess that the title originated from a kind of hope or belief. According to mothers" former sufferings, they were not happy. Even at the present, all of them hides the previous tragic experiences. Maybe, the club is a place where they can pretend to be happy or avoid the past memory or worries or even the shock of culture.
Reading the novel is as we are reading our life and then think our past, present and futere. Especially, the conflict between Waverly Jang and her mother impresses me most. Waverly is a woman who is quite independent-mined and intelligent, but her mother"s constant criticism is terribly annoying. She once had a gift for international chess.however, when she realized her mother taking advantage of her achievement and talent to show off in public, especially to the strangers, she felt terribly ashamed and annoyed. She shouted to you can not make me . From then on, her mother felt cold at Waverly and were particularabout her favorite things. In fact, I think Waverly felt sacred subconsciously at letting her mother down and something that she did was aimed at flattering her mother. When waverly brought her boyfriend, Rich, to her families, her mother just smiled but she still was particular about Rich"s appearance, having many spots on his face. Description about the conflicts of manners between Chinese tradition and American notions has given me a greatly deep impression and quite interesting. These words of And then he had helped himself to big portions of the shrimp and snow peas, not realizing he should have taken only a polite spoonful, until everybody had had a morsel. vividly express the American character of being casual which counts as discourtesy in China. The part of Rich criticizing her mother"s cooking is quite funny and impressive. Our Chinese habit of making disparaging remarks seems to be extremely common. Being modest and avoiding showing off are parts of Chinese traditional manners. Her mother complaining about This dish not salty enough, no flavor , in fact, was a cue to eat some and proclaim it it the best she had ever made. But the Rich did not understand. From the following description of her mother being horrified, I judged that her mother was bly objective against Rich and even their marriage. Waverly also had such an opinion. But I am wrong and from their conversation I understand something more important. Mother is the only one that understands their daughters or sons in the world.And none of the mothers do not love their children. And the heaty conversattion can make a b bridge between the different generation or even the peonple from the different cultures. I find that if you would not like to tell your hearty words out, others are not able to know what you are and what you think. People each have different opinions about the same things. Waverly had thought that her mother disapproved of her marriage and hated her Rich. However, her mother"s meaningful words surprised Waverly and even me. Just be particular about who I really care for and love. It occured to me that whoever we hurt is always who we really love for reasons that others would not care for our complaint. Yes, who will care for those who you do not love ? The answer is known by us fron the beginning to the end. It is the love for Waverly that her mother has been showing her. Waverly, a wholly Americanized girl, never trully knew her mother and was ignorant of the love for her. Indeed, the language and the culture did make a great difference in the exchange of feelings, which is a terribly high barrier between Waverly and her mother, also between other three mothers and their daughters. But love and understandings, finally will prevail over others.
Personally, through the whole novel, the conflict between mothers and daughters, virtually, is that of the cultures between the East and the West. Mothers represent the classic, traditional Chinese culture but the daughters are the symbol of just, free, open and modern American one, which are two kinds of contradictory elements. However, through the whole novel, it is easier to find that finally they can understand each other and be in harmony. When Jing-Mei saw her twin-half sisters, she was surprised at this kind of familiarity. And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. After all these years, it can finally be let go. shows that Jing-Mei understood her mother"s stubbornness and love and was struck by mother"s greatness. The resolution of the contradiction shows that the cultures of the East and the West can be in harmony with each other.
喜福会读后感内容篇一
一向以来很少有机会看电影。这次完整地看了一部荣获柏林电影节银熊奖的《喜福会》，让我深受感染，华裔导演与演员，也可算是中国式的好莱坞片吧。
影片讲述了四对母女的命运与生活，纯真的自我心理剖析让听了很了然。四个苦命的中国女人在国内历经磨难分别去美国，再跟美国人创造的第二次婚姻后又有了各自的女儿。恰好，四个女人也成了多年的朋友，各自情谊都很深，影片开始真正切入主体是母亲对各自女儿谈起早年的时光，悲惨的命运，吃人的礼教，薄薄的人情，不公正的婚姻，裸的封建压迫与惨昧的性，把整个近代中国社会刻画得淋漓尽致。总之，个个故事都是悲喜交加，从母亲的母亲再到婆家的家史，从逃沦的岁月到安逸的晚年，从中国的重庆到美国的旧金山，画面不停地在两地之间转换，故事也一个比一个更惨，更出人意料，把整个人的心都和剧中人物连接了起来，这她们担心，为她们惋惜，为中国的过去悲哀，也为人性感到惨淡，剧中的光线也跟周围环境谐调的很好，明就亮的出奇，像一面镜子，暗时凄凉可怕，病态的中国也许就是这样吧！
这四个母亲都是在中国出生成长的，在中国遭到不平等待遇，有的是公婆家的劣待，有的是娘家的排斥，有的是亲丈夫的暴力对待，在这样一个大黑锅下容易使人的性格变质，温柔的也会变为严酷的，渐渐地，她们觉得自己不适合这个时代，这个环境，于是走上了逃亡与流浪之路，从中国一向漂到美国，再也不回中国，把自己的后半辈寄托在他乡，把自己的`生命延续到了异乡。她们不能让自己的后代重蹈自己的前辙，于是当她们的女儿长大成人时，母亲对女儿的婚姻格外观注，生怕女儿会走错。母亲毕竟走过坎坷比女儿多，于是第二段故事就出来了。女儿的不幸与母亲的担忧构成了一网他乡的浪清，更是对资本主义社会加以揭露，人情与金钱，善恶与美丑，挚热与冷漠，从面构勒出现代社会的不幸，现代人之间的沟壑，这种不幸的生活遭遇到达必须程度就会爆发的资本主义社会的弊端，终究会穿过极限，整个影片也加以预示，最后在一片亲人的眼泪中结束了影片。
这是一部生活性戏剧，揭露性十分强烈的影片。
喜福会读后感内容篇二
今天晚上花了两个多小时，把《喜福会》（The Joy Luck Club）这本小说看完了。之所以看这本书，其实只是因为公选课需要读这本书的关系，但是当我读完了之后，发现这本书其实还是很不错的。虽然在公选课的经典书单里面这本书不那么经典，但是我觉得比起其它的书可能这一本反而要更加接地气一点。
这本书里面设定了四对母女，而书中的故事基本上就是围绕着母女之间因为代沟产生的矛盾展开的。这些故事之中有的关于成长，有的关于婚姻，但是我觉得这些故事无疑都围绕着一个关键，那就是女人的幸福。书中的四位母亲，都是成长在战争年代，有的富有有的贫穷，但是都因为机缘巧合有了人生的转折，来到了美国。她们不懂得怎样说一口流利的英文，但是却希望自己的女儿们能够在这里走向成功，获得幸福，不会走母亲们的老路。这种强烈的、带有中国传统色彩的愿望，与从小成长于美国文化的女儿们身上产生了巨大的碰撞。女儿们大都能够理解母亲们的苦心，然而却不能够接受他们母亲的想法。以至于他们都陷入了困境，然而在母亲的帮助下，又再次收获了幸福。
书中给我印象颇为深刻的大概是母亲们的故事。比如说琳达拥有对自己的强烈追求，而用自己的智慧获得了自由；又比如安梅见证母亲的命运而对自己的命运有着强烈的掌控欲望，这种不向命运屈服或者更直接的说不向男人屈服的特质最终遗传到了她的女儿露丝身上。而祖孙三代，也代表了从屈服、觉醒到抗争的三个阶段。比起女儿们的故事，母亲们的故事更加奇异更加特别，也更加发人深思。
然而这本书也并非完美。在我看来，作者采用了分镜头的方法，每一章都可以看做一个简单的故事，而所有的故事又隐隐有一条线索穿行其中可以让它们联系在一起。这样的写法现在渐渐流行了起来，比如说非常热门的《冰与火之歌》。分镜头的写法固然可以让故事不断切换到第一视角，让故事叙述更加方便而真实，但这种方式也造成了读者阅读的困难。尤其是其中有一些事件发生的时间并不明确，导致了故事间的因果也不甚清晰。所以这也可以说是这本书的一点瑕疵。
除此之外，对于我来说，或许还有一点不满意的就是这本书的中译本。这译本给人的感觉过于生硬，感觉译者对中美文化间的差异与相似没有深入了解，翻译技巧也有一定的不足。导致不少语言上的妙处需要注释来点出，损失了原文的趣味。当然，我还是很愿意再读一读这本书的原文或者其他的译本。
