The Joy Luck Club

For my outside reading book I chose, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. I never thought of reading any ethnic books such as this one. I wanted to read something different, because reading the same types of books over and over again can become boring after awhile. My book so far is introducing the eight main characters, four moms and four daughters. Each chapter is about a character's story, I think it will be a great plot. Readers would put together the pieces of the story and make it lead up to an exciting climax. I'm really interested how the eight characters will relate later on in the story. I predict Jing-Mei Woo will gather a meeting, and all the characters will be discussing a similar disaster in their families.
The characters make up the story being told. I haven't been introduce to all the main characters, but I'm guessing it'll be a key point. Each mother and daughter have a link in their childhood stories. For example; Ying-Ying St. Clair talks about Amah burning the five evils, whereas Lena St. Clair, her daughter, saw the bad things that were going to happen to children. The characters make the reader predict their actions through the course of the story. In this book, the characters have interesting/unusual backgrounds which have hidden relations with other characters or symbolism. 

One of my annotations from this book was about the theme of the part in the book called, The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates. Each page of ,The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, had a picture of terrible danger to young innocent children. From this allusion, you already know the characters involved might be or seen the destruction of innocence. I think this part of the book is similar to the theme in, To Kill a Mockingbird. This is because the symbol of that book is that the mockingbird stands for the innocence. No one is suppose to kill a mockingbird because it's just like destroying innocence.

For the creative project I would like to do a poster of the contradicting characters . I think that will tell enough of the book. The whole book is around these eight characters.