In many novellas, short stories, and novels, authors often use a shift of view to change how you think of characters or create other impressions of the situation. The novel “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan uses these shifts very well and helps readers create a more vivid picture of the book and how characters feel. These shifts are designed to affect your reading and how you understand the book, the shift in point of view for me made me see how people other than the main character of the book felt about what is happening. Before she shifted from the mother’s point of view I really thought that the daughter wasn’t following their traditions and she should learn from her mother. Without any shift I would have always seen the book that way, but
