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Plot Summary of Pot of Gold
"Claire is a struggling single mother, barely making ends meet when she realizes she has just won the lottery. She has a hard time adjusting from having nothing to having all that money can buy. She decideds to take her daughter and go on a cruise that is where she learns that having money means that she can do what ever she wants. After years of being alone raising her daughter by herself. She can now offer them a whole new life and with that life comes new rules then what she is used to playing.

Claire and her daughter start relationships with two very wealthy men, a father and son dual but after a while Claire learns that the money does not make the man and she is a strong enough woman to let the sex go and do what she wants.

Her daughter, has a very rough time of the whole new relationship and struggles to keep her mind in tune while having this relationship. Emma learns the hard way, that bad behavior is not exceptable, even if you think you are in love and she almost dies as a result of thinking you love someone who makes you feel unwhole inside.
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Review Analysis of Pot of Gold
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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Poverty, surviving Yes
Kind of living: - rags to riches story
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Lover is - of a different social class

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - blue collar
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - very athletic

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 4 ()
United States Yes
Water? Yes
Water: - pleasure/love boat
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy
Unusual Style: - a lot of play on words
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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