Topic: Discuss and analyze the italicized prologues to the four books. What do they have to do with the subsequent chapters?
             In the book The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan there are four prologues to four books. My judgment is that the prologues in the four books are the foreshadowing or the preview of each book.
             I have two reasons that support my thesis. The first reason is that similar things happen during the chapters from the prologues and second, the italicized prologues speak of the theme in the four books.
             My first reason that supports my thesis is that similar things that happen in the book also happen during the chapters. This reason helps support my thesis, because since the similar things that happen in the chapter that happened in the prologue I can say they were the foreshadowing. My first example is that in the prologue "Feathers From a Thousand Li Away", it speaks of a daughter that has never known the sorrows that her mother experienced in China, but she cannot appreciate her good fortune because she does not know her mother's story. Then in the chapters it shows the hardships of the mothers in their younger years. The first example, is in the chapter "The Joy Luck Club" in this chapter is where the story unfolds, telling about a hardship Jing-Mei's mother went through. Another example, in the chapter, "Scar" it is about An-Mei and her hardships between her uncle's family and her mother. With a little confusion, some soup scalds An-Mei, causing a scar, another hardship An-Mei went through in her younger years. The chapter in the first book is the chapter "The Moon Lady", where Ying Ying St. Clair gets lost during the Moon Festival, which causes her to go through almost getting drowned and witnessing the "masculine" side of the Moon Lady, which I have say is a hardship. Another fact that supports my reasoning is a quote from the prologue of "The...