The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates Themes

Using the very brief stories that introduce each section of the novel, Amy Tan has chosen each of these tales to characterize the four sections because each section of the four stories in them take a similar meaning and concept of the titles of these four sections. For an example of each section, the “Feathers from a Thousand Li Way” has something to do with leaving things behind on your journey and realizing that at the end, you could have took another route than the decision that you want at first. It also shows stubbornness, arrogance, and not taking consideration of others. “The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates” tells you how certain rules or situations are possible to be followed. However, in some cases, you are the one to make your own decisions and have a …show more content…
In this novel, family seemed to be the number one thing through every issue that needed to be fixed and reunited. How the author characterized the four sections, all of these meanings served as signposts to foreshadow the plot. With the Moon Lady’s story, I do not think that they captured Asian aesthetic, where figures like the Moon Lady plays an indispensable role in charting human experience. Mythic stories might provide more accurate renderings of the women’s experience by interpreting their way of life through the stories of their ancestors and exaggerating on how the story may have happened as simple as the world in China was ending and everyone was running to leave the country, taking babies and having bags with the whole house of items in them for memories. But it could also be more one another ancient legends of how an emperor or noble person impacted the lives of others doing the extra mile of sacrifices and/or deeds. This is a point of contention between the Asian and American cultures depicted in the