Sometimes mothers do know best.
Though based on folk wisdom Tan's use of the Twenty Six Malignant Gates epigraph suggests that sometimes mothers do know best.
A girl goes against her mother
A girl goes against her mother
The Twenty Six Malignant Gates epigraph is based on stories people have told for many years.
The Twenty Six Malignant Gates epigraph is based on stories people have told for many years.
The Twenty Six Malignant Gates epigraph is based on stories people have told for many years. It also includes folk wisdom.
It's in Chinese
Sometimes mothers do know best
It is written in a language she cannot read.
In The Joy Luck Club, "The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates" describe all of the the bad things that can happen outside the house.
The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, also known as the nursery rhyme or cautionary tale in the book "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan, is said to contain dangerous and harmful things that children should avoid. However, the actual contents of the Twenty-Six Malignant Gates are not explicitly mentioned in the book. It is left to the reader's imagination, leaving the nature of the gates and what they contain open-ended.
It is based on stories people have told for many years.