There’s another cliche, though—the wise, low status person. This person is usually old, though occasionally you get a child who’s wise beyond their years.
I can’t think of any tropes about surprisingly wise middle-aged people.
Parents (or contemporaries of parents) who turn out to be surprisingly wise are a staple of a certain kind of YA fiction.
I wonder if this is a slight reaction to another kind of YA fiction, in which adults are useless, often from stupidity.
There’s another cliche, though—the wise, low status person. This person is usually old, though occasionally you get a child who’s wise beyond their years.
I can’t think of any tropes about surprisingly wise middle-aged people.
Parents (or contemporaries of parents) who turn out to be surprisingly wise are a staple of a certain kind of YA fiction.
I wonder if this is a slight reaction to another kind of YA fiction, in which adults are useless, often from stupidity.