Lesson Two

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• Lesson Two
• Two kinds

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Pre-reading QuestionsWhats the meaning of the
title Two Kinds?
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II. Dictionary Work

• 1. prodigy a young person who is extremely
  clever or good at doing something,
• 2. mesmerize make someone fl that they must
  watch or listen to something or someone, because
  they are so interested in it or attracted by it.
• 3. squawk to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a
  parrot or chicken.
• 4.sulky showing annoyance, resentment,
  dissatisfaction
• 5. to anchor sth. to keep something from
  drifting or giving away ,etc. by or as by anchor.

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II. Dictionary Work

• 6. sauciness a long open container that horse,
  cattle, etc. eat from
• 7. discordant not in harmony
• 8. nonchalantly without warmth or enthusiasm
  not showing interest

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III. Library Work

• The Joy Luck Club is Amy Tans first and most
  successful novel. The book comprises a series of
  short- story- like vignettes that move back and
  forth in time and space, between the lives of
  four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and their
  American-
• born daughter in California. It tells stories
• about four pairs of mothers and daughters-
• Suyuan Woo and Jing-mei(June)

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III. Library Work

• Anmei Hsu and Rose Lindo Jong and Waverly
  Ying-ying St. Clair and Lena. These stories are
  told by seven voices, those of the mothers and
  daughters except for Suyuan Woo, who is dead when
  the story begins in the book. The different
  points of view enable the reader to look at the
  bittersweet mother-daughter relations from
  different angles.

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IV. Organization of the Text

• Part I. (Paras. 1-3)
• tells about the mother and her hopes for her
  daughter
• Part II.(P4-47)
• Subsection 1 (Paras. 4 11)
• the mothers unsuccessful attempt to change
  her daughter into a Chinese Shirley Temple.
• Subsection 2 (Paras. 12 20)
• the mother was trying very hard to train her
  daughterto be genius.

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IV. Organization of the Text

• Subsection 3 (Paras. 21 28)
• the mother want the daughter to play the piano,
  the conflict would go further
• Subsection 4 (Paras. 29 46)
• how the girl was made to learn the piano under
  the instructions of Old Chong
• Subsection 5 (Paras. 47 60)
• the girl was to perform in a talent show held in
  the church and she made a mess of her performance

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IV. Organization of the Text

• Subsection 6 (Paras. 61-76)
• The climax of the story. they had the most fierce
  quarrel on playing piano.
• Part III (Paras 77 - 93)the end of the story
• Subsection 1 (Paras. 77 89)
• the clash between mother and daughter
  subsided.
• Subsection 2 (Paras. 90 93)
• a few year later after the previous scene

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V. Key Points of the Text

• Part I
• You could buy a house with almost no money
  down You could buy a house without any down
  payment, that is , completely on loan.
• family home In China, family home is one where a
  big, extended family with three or more
  generations live together

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Part II

• a beauty training school ?????
• lop off to cut a part of something off, esp. a
  branch of a tree.
• a dainty ballerina girl a small, pretty and
  delicate girl who dance in ballets.
• give up on me to stop hoping that someone will
  change, do something, etc.
• to pick on someone to blame someone for
  something, esp. unfairly

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• whined complained in a sad, annoyed voice
• If she had as much talents as she has temper, she
  would be famous now ??????????????,??????.
• Squabble(over/about) to quarrel continuously
  about something unimportant
• To dawdle(over) to take a long time to do
  something
• Debut a first appearance in public as of an
  actor.
• I wedged myself more tightly in front of the
  TVI pushed myself more tightly in front of
  thethe TV.

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Part III

• fall short of expectation to fail to meet the
  expectation
• And for the first time, or so it seemed, I
  noticed the piece...longer, but
  faster.???,?????????,??????????????????????????
  ????????????,???????,???????????????,?????????
  ????

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VI. SA to Ex. V, P. 16,

• 1. I imagined myself as different types of
  prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me
  the best.
• 2. I had new thoughts, which were filled with a
  strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion.
• 3. The girl was Shirley Temple-like,slightly rude
  but in an amusing way.
• 4. When I said those words, I felt that some
  nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so I
  felt scared. But at the same time I felt good,
  relieved, because those nasty things had been
  suppressed in my heart for some time and they had
  got out at last.

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VII. SA to Ex. V, P. 16

• 5. I could feel that her anger had reached the
  point where her self-control would collapse, and
  wanted to see what my mother would do when she
  lost complete control of herself.
• 6.When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut
  out the dust and also put an end to my misery and
  her dreams.

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Dscussion on appreciation

• A number of rhetorical devices are used in
  paragraph 25. Point out and give examples.