Reflection,+Joy+Luck+Club+questions

9. What patterns do you notice in the plot structure? In the plot structure of the Joy Luck Club, I noticed that Jing-Mei Woo is the narrator of the first story and the last one, and she also narrates other stories in different sections. I also realized that Jing-Mei Woo, one of the daughters of the Joy Luck Club, also takes part in all the 4 sections of the story, and ends most of them. It is almost like she is the main storyteller of the story, bringing in the introduction, and also concluding different chapters. She appears in Feathers from a Thousand Li away, narrating the first chapter by talking about the Joy Luck Club through her mother's point of view, and she appears to narrate the last chapter of The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, American Translation, and Queen Mother of the Western Skies. So altogether in plot structure, she starts the story, supports it in the middle, then concludes it. (Zach Hing, Block B English 9)