THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE MOVIE AND THE NOVEL ‘THE JOY LUCK CLUB’
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differences, movie, novel, narrative strategy, order, durance, frequency, theme, ethnic community culture, feminist spirit.Abstrak
The Joy Luck Club is a novel published in 1989, written in by Amy Tan, a Chinese American writer. In 1993, it was adapted into a movie directed by Wayne Wang and achieved a great success. The study aims at analyzing the differences between the novel and the movie in content and narrative strategy. Though the movie is basically faithful to the novel---the main characters and stories are the same and both in flashback narrative order, it made some changes in story endings, narrative order and other expressive techniques, some omissions and some supplements. Consequently, the themes expressed in the movie, in addition to the commonalities of love, communication, and cultural identity with those in the novel, showing less feminist spirit but more ethnic community culture, less conflicts but more reconciliation.
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