Joy Luck Club

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In the text “ How to read literature like a professor” Five chapter help represent the story joy luck club. Chapter one tells that the main chapter quest/goal tells how it led up by telling important things about the characters . This applies to the joy luck club because, in the joy luck club, the first backstory talks about how the whole joy luck club started. During the sino japanese war and all the chaos it started, suyuan, jing mei late-mother, made the joy luck club to bring some joy during the devastated time. It tells that suyuan is a hardworking person and also have a competitive personality. It basically explains that the quest suyuan wants is to make a joy luck club. There's another example in the text that shows quests is in chapter four of the joy luck club. Ying-Ying, the main character of this chapter, goal is to find the moon lady. In 1918, Ying-ying’s nanny told her about the moon festival and talks about that the moon lady will fulfill her every wish. Her journey is to find the moon lady by going on a boat. However, she soon figure out that the moon lady is a dude. This concept chapter explained that the journey is better than the destination.
In additional, chapter 23 of the “ how read literature like a
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This koo similarities traits happen to one of the characters in the stories. Example; jing-mei aunt named an-mei happen to have a scar in her early of her childhood's. The story explains that she got the scar because her mother wants to take her away. The stories shows mini stories in the text.
This led that chapter seven from the “ How to read literature like a professor” creates critical points and character developments from each character in the book..
Five chapters of the foster books can also help express children's books such as the golem. Chapter 18 of the text for the foster book use

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