26 Malignant Gates Blog

For the most part, I can say I like The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates. I think that the title in itself caught my attention and made me curious as to what these stories were like. I thought that these stories were both very interesting because of the similarities and differences. In addition it is from the daughter’s points of view, which seems important because they seem to be very reserved so far throughout the book and not as close with their mothers. I thought that the main similarities between Waverly and Lindo’s stories were that they both had very major things happen when they were children. Waverly became a champion at chess at nine, and Lindo was married at 16. They also had very difficult relationships with their mothers. It seems like they were both forced into a lot of situations by their mothers. Whereas for Lena and Ying-Ying, it seems like there is some secrecy between Ying-Ying because of when she says she killed a son a long time ago (another symbol because of death). It is also something that I am very curious to know about especially as the story develops (unless it was hidden message). Even the fact that they can not understand each other because of a language barrier is somewhat ridiculous because of the fact that it’s they are mother and daughter! I am very curious to see where the story goes from this point because of the things that have been established in these relationships between characters.