The plot of a piece of literature contains every event and action that takes place within that piece. The Joy Luck Club contains many different stories, but their plots all entail the issue of cultural identity. For example, June notices the distress within the mothers of the novel once she tells them that because her mother had passed away, she has nothing to pass on to her children. June thinks, “What will I say?… They see their own daughters, just as ignorant… who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese… who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation” (Tan 31). June points out a very significant fact: because the American-born daughters “grow impatient” whenever their mothers are