In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, all the storytelling done makes the plot structure very unique. The novel takes place in four different time frames: the mother’s childhoods in China; the young adult years of the mothers when they immigrate to America; the childhood years of the daughters in the United States; and the young adult years of the daughters as they interact with mothers. The mother’s childhood experiences take place in China while the rest of the context takes place in San Francisco or Oakland, California. The rising action has the reader wondering whether Jing-mei (one of the narrating daughters) is going to be able to explain their mother's life story to her half-sisters whom she recently found out about. The climax
