After reading the Joy Luck Club.

What do you feel after reading a book carefully? At this time, you need to seriously think about how to write your own thoughts after reading. Want to know how to write your thoughts after reading? The following are my model essays (4 selected articles) on the Joy Luck Club, which are welcome for your reference and I hope to help you.

Last semester, I read an English book called The Joy Luck Club. This book tells the fate and life of four mother and daughter. After their second marriage with an American, four abused China women went through hardships in China and came to the United States to give birth to their daughters. Coincidentally, these four women have also become friends for many years and have a deep friendship. The article began to really cut into the main body. The mother vividly showed the whole modern China society when she told her tragic fate, unfair marriage and feudal oppression of her daughter in her early years.

The whole novel begins with the death of Jingmei's mother, and ends with Jingmei going to China to visit her twin sisters who were forced to abandon her when the Japanese invaded China many years ago. More importantly, the stories of four mothers and four daughters are related in theme, their love and their mothers' hopes for their daughters.

Perhaps what impressed me most about this book was the stories of mothers. For example, Linda has a strong desire for herself and uses wisdom to get freedom; For example, Mei witnessed her mother's fate and had a strong desire to control her own destiny. This character of not giving in to fate, or more directly, not giving in to men, was finally inherited from her daughter Ruth. Three generations of grandparents and grandchildren also represent three stages: submission, awakening and resistance. Mother's story is more bizarre, special and thought-provoking than her daughter's story.

Personally, throughout the novel, the conflict between mother and daughter is essentially a conflict between eastern and western cultures. Mother represents classical and traditional China culture, while daughter symbolizes justice, freedom, openness and the unity of modern America, which are two contradictory elements. But looking at the whole novel, it is easier to find that they can finally understand each other and live in harmony.

The Joy Luck Club's Reading Perception 2 is a Chinese version, because reading on WeChat is only a recommendation. When I first opened it, I didn't actually think the Joy Luck Club was the one I had heard of since I was very young. The translation of this book is very good, and I can feel the beauty of the author's writing style, so that I thought the author was only American at first, but I wrote this book in Chinese. It took me about a fifth of the time to find out that this is a "masterpiece" that I have heard since junior high school, but I have never seen before.

Personally, I went to Australia with my parents when I was in the fifth grade, and then I went to England to study at a university. I just graduated this year, and my experience is similar to the protagonist in the book. I can't tell why (in fact, the reason may be similar to the protagonist in the book). Although I have always been a literary youth who loves reading in adolescence, I have always resisted such family-related books with China background.

At that time, I read the autobiography of the president of the United States about his relationship with his parents and his identity, the story of Australian aborigines integrating into the so-called modern society and so on. But I am far away from these things that are closer to me. I always vaguely feel that these books, which are more "mainstream" or more popular in the west, are always different from my personal experience, and I feel that they are true to some extent after reading them. After all, my parents belong to those innocent people who come out to make money. They are neither family nor persecuted or obviously unfair. Grandparents and grandparents were also relatively enlightened people in that era, at least supporting them to study freely and fall in love/choose marriage partners.

In addition, I always feel that my relationship with my parents is much better than that of many friends with similar backgrounds around me. After all, my parents are sometimes willing to be reasonable. They never force me to practice the piano every day or study whether my exam results are more or less than those of my neighbors. For various reasons unrelated to this book, I don't need a watch these days, and my relationship with my parents is unprecedented. I gradually found that since I am a human being, it is inevitable to have customs and start to contact this type of books and movies.

The biggest discovery is that although the times have changed, my family's life is not as ups and downs as the protagonist in the story (mainly the older generation), and the individual is not in the United States but in the ups and downs. Many similar traditions can still be seen in the details.

First of all, the mother-daughter relationship is really a magical thing. Sometimes mothers seem to know you very well, which makes you feel a little strange, and sometimes they seem to know you completely. The mother in the book can judge whether her daughter will divorce from the style of a piece of furniture or a leather coat, and whether her daughter will become a dragon and phoenix from the anger of a piano competition or not participating in the competition.

In the book, daughters often don't know their mothers relatively, and it seems that there are too many obstacles in close learning, such as language itself, cultural differences, rebellious period of youth, work, mate selection and so on. Maybe people always think that you are you, I am me, and we are different. It was not until one day that I hit the south wall that I found that both the Chinese wall, the American wall and the Australian earth wall were so painful, and the collision posture was strikingly similar to that of my parents. At this time, I either believe in metaphysics or study genetics, anthropology or psychology (I chose psychology which is relatively easy to get started).

In addition, I was deeply impressed by Wu Jingmei, an ordinary but "highest quality" person in her mother's eyes, and the comparison with the chess girl whose name I forgot. When a mother compares her daughter with other people's children, it sometimes puzzles us whether she really loves her children. She wants them to become excellent and love women to "succeed", or she wants to prove her Excellence through her children. What is a genius? Maybe each of us has some talent or some people are so-called all-rounders. The book says that there are two kinds of ideas, one is born and the other is planted by others. Environment (the family environment provided by parents and the big environment itself) affects what kind of dialogue a person can have with his so-called talent. My own observation over the years is that many times China's parents would rather believe that one step is wrong, and life seems to be a spiral staircase with many forks. If you make a wrong step, you will fall down. If you make a wrong step, you will never come back. Personally, I prefer to believe that sometimes taking a step back will make the world bigger. If I take a fork in the road, I will encounter unexpected scenery. Many roads are difficult to distinguish right from wrong. If I have a good society and a good home, I may come back.

Tell me about the shortcomings of this book in my eyes? First of all, a little fly in the ointment is that most of the male characters in the book are vague, and personally, nothing is particularly impressive. In addition, individuals don't like this structure, which may be more literary, but the phobia of remembering names means that they often forget who and who, and sometimes they are lazy and don't remember who and who are mother and daughter. The first feeling after reading it is that apart from the story of Wu Jingmei and her mother, I have a better impression of her mother's story or my daughter's story. On the contrary, the meaning of writing these two people as mother and daughter is a bit difficult to understand.

At first, I thought it was good to describe the Joy Luck Club figures after Wu's mother died. Through mother Wu's words and the performance of several aunts at the meeting, several people with distinct personalities were outlined in just a few words, but sometimes it is difficult for me to see some personal stories in the later period because of space reasons. What is the relationship between their experiences and their later personalities (for example, the story of the Moon Empress on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, with a feeling that the painting style suddenly becomes fantastic). Finally, in fact, this book involves many and miscellaneous topics (family, war, traditional marriage culture, metaphysics), so I feel that some problems are too shallow. Personally, I think it would be better to have fewer topics or a longer book.

Finally, maybe not everything can have the only correct explanation. Sometimes we should embrace metaphysics.

What is the relationship between mother and daughter? From the moment the umbilical cord was cut short, they were already two independent individuals. The same is family, the difference is emotional pay. Mothers always have reasons to restrain them and teach their daughters how to grow up. However, the mother's experience also comes from the previous generation or from her own experience.

People from China families are easily influenced by their family background and try to get rid of some kind of burden. Subconsciously escape, but in this world, such safety rules are respected, and contradictory psychology always affects both sides. The Joy Luck Club is named after four mothers from four families who often get together. Located in the southeast and northwest, the loser of mahjong takes over the next one. Or escape with an epiphany in a trance, or remarry an American. At a certain stage of separation, they had the same experience, immigrated to the United States, and their descendants drifted away. They treat life in their own way, or resist life, and blindly educate their daughters in this way.

The tortuous life experience, life separation, regret and many emotions can't be said, and I have a clear sense of loneliness. Mother clumsily explained something in English, and no one could understand it. She just laughed at them. Over time, silence is the best way to get along. This is a characteristic in China people's bones, which is both stubborn and stubborn. Mother coldly watched her daughter rise from the tall building to entertain guests. The daughter rebelled against the controlled life, and the atmosphere between mother and daughter was cold and awkward.

Amy Tan clearly understands the influence of the immigrant generation on the previous generation, the mother generation and the daughter generation in The Joy Luck Club. If there are thousands of miles between us, we can't understand each other, and all that remains is resistance and indifference. Obviously isolated from the ravine, there is still a bond of contact, and I am attached to the faint acacia.

Reading experience of the Joy Luck Club IV. In the era of fragmented reading, the reading habit of reading articles is fast, and the time to read a novel is only a centralized or decentralized problem. For example, the normal speed of reading a Chinese novel is about 30000-50000 words/hour. The Joy Luck Club with less than 6.5438+0.8 million words should be finished in 6 hours at most. If cut into pieces, it takes about 1 hour a day, which is enough for a week's reading. This is a rational quantitative calculation.

But in fact, this book has dragged me on for half a year. I underestimated the book's resistance to casual reading. It is a novel that surprises me more and more. So, it took six months to finish reading this book, maybe, maybe not.

Four pairs of mother and daughter, 16 stories, 7 perspectives, interrelated and independent. Therefore, reading every independent and related story, the characters' hearts, background stories, dialogues, and the current progress of time and space makes people feel complicated and confused.

After reading 16 stories for the first time, I feel very confused. Because there are no conventional characters or plot clues, I have to put myself in the perspective of each character to understand their hearts and past.

The four mothers in The Joy Luck Club are similar in age, and it is often confusing which one was a child bride, which one gave birth to a child when she was young, which one experienced war trauma and which one remarried with her mother.

The second time, I felt as if I had read it in vain, but I still couldn't tell who was who and who said what. I feel that the relationship between characters is too trivial to grasp the key figures or narrative points, which makes people feel very lost and confused. I simply put it on hold for a few months.

The third time, inspired by a recent interview with Faye Yu, I remembered that she made this play many years ago, and the screenwriter was also the author of the film of the same name adapted from the novel. So I found a movie and watched it again, and established the relationship between characters with sound and painting image.

Due to the time limit, the film can only cut off a lot of details drastically, retaining the plot structure and the relationship between characters, but it can achieve 80% presentation. What's important is that the director sorted out a clue that she went to China to find her sister in June because of her mother's death, gradually uncovering the origin of the Joy Luck Club, the rift between each mother's life experience and her daughter, and the reconciliation between the two generations.

Finally, it is smoother, unlike the original, which feels that the author exerts equal force on each role, and the perspective and clues are complicated.

Looking back at the novel for the fourth time, disrupting the order given by the original, combing the clues according to each character's story, drawing a figure of character relationship on white paper while reading, adding keywords of personality, background and experience, and finally sorting out the context of the four mothers and daughters in The Joy Luck Club. It takes a little stupidity to take a breath, and it is not difficult to read. )

These four mothers come from different parts of China, but their lives after they came to the United States are similar, and their requirements and expectations for the next generation are very similar because of the China gene in their blood.

They initiated the Joy Luck Club to share happiness and forget pain, which is a woman's belief and yearning for the motherland. However, whenever the Joy Luck Club family gets together, some of them are not only happy. Mothers habitually compare themselves with their children and brag about each other. Later, they further asked their children to "study hard", "play chess well" and "marry well" to give themselves a long face, which is a typical oriental tutor.

They are rooted in a foreign country, have families and children, but they are still lonely inside, that language and culture, because of the lack of singing. As a result, the Joy Luck Club, an organization similar to the Hometown Association, became the best habitat for the first generation of immigrants to keep warm.

The four daughters born and raised in the United States have the typical advantages of "American culture+China family" education. They have a dual perspective than children who grew up in a single cultural family, but they often struggle internally. What method is used to deal with this problem?

Daughters' hearts and thoughts are always in the contradiction between eastern and western cultural values, which gradually appears in their relationship with their mothers and even affects their love and marriage.

They are not familiar with China across the ocean. All the traditions and habits of China people are inherited or edified by their mothers. They know and accept many expressions or thoughts of China people, but they don't really understand them, and they don't necessarily agree with their mothers in their hearts.

Daughters should be indoctrinated by their mothers and try to be what their mothers want, but that's not what they want. Whether playing the piano, playing chess, studying or getting married, the second generation immigrants have great conceptual conflicts with their mothers.

Amy Tan, the author, uses a special narrative structure with multiple perspectives and staggered time and space to pull out the cross-cultural gap and intergenerational gap between the two generations. Every mother's experience can project the image of China on the other side, ranging from the era and cultural background to the interpretation of China's family values and love. And every daughter of the second generation of immigrants must painfully inherit and break through, find a balance and get rid of herself in an environment with things in between.

As far as all the immigrant literature I have read so far, The Joy Luck Club is second to none.