第一篇：看《喜福會》小說后的英文讀后感

The Reading Report about The Joy Luck Club

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 swan—a 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 strongly 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 strong 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.

第二篇：看《喜福會》小說后的英文讀后感

The Reading Report about The Joy Luck Club 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 swan—a 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 strongly 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 strong 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.

第三篇：小說《喜福會》讀后感

小說《喜福會》讀后感

今天晚上花了兩個多小時，把《喜福會》（The Joy Luck Club）這本小說看完了。之所以看這本書，其實只是因為公選課需要讀這本書的關系，但是當我讀完了之后，發現這本書其實還是很不錯的。雖然在公選課的經典書單里面這本書不那么經典，但是我覺得比起其它的書可能這一本反而要更加接地氣一點。

這本書里面設定了四對母女，而書中的故事基本上就是圍繞著母女之間因為代溝產生的矛盾展開的。這些故事之中有的關于成長，有的關于婚姻，但是我覺得這些故事無疑都圍繞著一個關鍵，那就是女人的幸福。書中的四位母親，都是成長在戰爭年代，有的富有有的貧窮，但是都因為機緣巧合有了人生的轉折，來到了美國。她們不懂得怎樣說一口流利的英文，但是卻希望自己的女兒們能夠在這里走向成功，獲得幸福，不會走母親們的老路。這種強烈的、帶有中國傳統色彩的愿望，與從小成長于美國文化的女兒們身上產生了巨大的碰撞。女兒們大都能夠理解母親們的苦心，然而卻不能夠接受他們母親的想法。以至于他們都陷入了困境，然而在母親的幫助下，又再次收獲了幸福。

書中給我印象頗為深刻的大概是母親們的故事。比如說琳達擁有對自己的強烈追求，而用自己的智慧獲得了自由；又比如安梅見證母親的命運而對自己的命運有著強烈的掌控欲望，這種不向命運屈服或者更直接的說不向男人屈服的特質最終遺傳到了她的女兒露絲身上。而祖孫三代，也代表了從屈服、覺醒到抗爭的三個階段。比起女兒們的故事，母親們的故事更加奇異更加特別，也更加發人深思。

然而這本書也并非完美。在我看來，作者采用了分鏡頭的方法，每一章都可以看做一個簡單的故事，而所有的故事又隱隱有一條線索穿行其中可以讓它們聯系在一起。這樣的寫法現在漸漸流行了起來，比如說非常熱門的《冰與火之歌》。分鏡頭的寫法固然可以讓故事不斷切換到第一視角，讓故事敘述更加方便而真實，但這種方式也造成了讀者閱讀的困難。尤其是其中有一些事件發生的時間并不明確，導致了故事間的因果也不甚清晰。所以這也可以說是這本書的一點瑕疵。

除此之外，對于我來說，或許還有一點不滿意的就是這本書的中譯本。這譯本給人的感覺過于生硬，感覺譯者對中美文化間的差異與相似沒有深入了解，翻譯技巧也有一定的不足。導致不少語言上的妙處需要注釋來點出，損失了原文的趣味。當然，我還是很愿意再讀一讀這本書的原文或者其他的譯本。

第四篇：喜福會 英文讀后感

The Joy Luck Club

I spent nearly a whole afternoon to read “The Joy Luck Club” which I think is a little sorrowful, but very attractive.Through out the story, there are conflicts, hardship, hurts, torture and so on.“The Joy Luck club”tell us the story of four immigrant mothers and their children that were raised in America.The four Chinese women immigrated to America because of their own reason such as escaping from the war, from the unfortunate marriage and so on.From the four mother’s experience of leaving their motherland, there remain a lot of things that desire our thinking.The war made people lose their home and their family.The traditional Chinese feudal ethics forced everyone to follow.So they leave their hometown to pursue freedom and hope.It seemed a new start to settle in America, but their life was still full of conflicts between the old generations and the young generations with different cultural background.Maybe, it was the culture conflict made them quarrel a lot, for they have different sense of value, family background and education.“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me.They have clung to me all my life” written by Abraham Lincoln.Mother love is the most altruistic love in the world.Whatever they do is just to ensure

their children’s bright prospect.In this novel, children didn’t understand their mothers’behaviour.The misunderstanding of love hurt them both.They need more tolerance and understanding in their life.What impressed me most is women’s struggle for gender inequlity, and their seeks for self-confidence.I appreciate this book very much, it tells me a lot of things that I can never learn from text books.

第五篇：喜福會英文觀后感

My Reflection of The Joy Luck Club

I wonder that when seeing the name The Joy Luck Club most people would treat it as a story filled with happiness and love.In fact, besides love, it is also about the cultural conflicts between four daughters and their mothers.The film is based on the best seller by Amy Tan of the same name.It shows us the lives of four Chinese women who were immigrants to America during the 1950s.As a mother, each of them has a lot of problems with their daughter because of cultural conflicts.The misunderstanding of love between the mothers and their American-raised daughters, the clash between the generations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity touch every audience’s heart.Though I was also attracted by something with extensiveness——I want to talk about some points about the language.I had learnt that what are high context communication and low context communication and what is different between them.The former is one in which most of the information is internalized in a person, while very little in the coded, explicit, transmitted part of the message——we must guess what the real meaning of the words is;while the other is the opposite.Chinese just the stands for the former and English is the representative of the latter.An interesting scene in the movie just shows us this.When Waverly’s boyfriend Richie had a dinner with Waverly’s big Chinese family for the first time, he made some stupid mistakes.He brought his typical American habit when the they were eating and he couldn’t understand what Lindo(Waverly’s mother)mean when she said “ He has an appetite”.When Lindo brought a dish which she was very proud of, as a Chinese, she still said some formulae that the dish was not salty enough and it was too bad to eat;that suggested that everyone around the table should speak highly of her dish after their first degustation;while Richie didn’t understand that Chinese all like to be modest and he criticized Lindo’s cooking, just saying what he thought in his mind directly.What Richie did led to a very embarrassing atmosphere in the dinner and made Lindo very disappointed and

disgraced.The misunderstanding of a different culture and a different language is the mainly reason causing the awkward occasion.If Richie had known what he had faced with was a group of people with different culture and saying a high context language, and had done some preparation for that different traditional Chinese dinner, he could have avoid to making so many foolish mistake.To understand what a Chinese mean you could not just follow the superficial message transmitted by his words, instead, you should connect those words to his cultural background and the situation you are in.By appreciating the movie we could realize the culture of a people from their language.In this movie the cultural conflicts between the mothers’ traditional Chinese concept and the daughters’ up-to-date American concept are fully described by their dialogues and soliloquies.In conclusion, a language is really the mirror of a culture;and if we want to understand the marrow of a culture we could appreciate its language.