t women are not made to be slaves, but yet are able to risk their lives for their fathers, like Mulan did. I see Mulan as being very brave in this movie, and this picture also enabled her to be a role model for children, by allowing them to understand that if you mess up it does not mean you are a failure, but just that everything is not meant for everyone. Mulan proved that she was not ready to get married, instead wanted to prove herself to her father. She does this by going out, disguised as a man, to the war, doing a heroic job of saving the emperors' life. He father was afraid of this because in China a women could be killed if she portraited herself as a man. Her father did not want everyone to know in their village that his daughter had run off to war to fight in a man's army. That could have gotten them both killed. But the outcome of Mulan's story was a successful one. She saved the emperors' life and came out of the war unharmed. Mulan could not go out to the war as herself because of cultural expectations that were put upon women. Women were expected not to have a voice in the family, to be more like maids and in reality to be seen and not heard. But I found Mulan to be a women of a different stature. She was a very outspoken person who never went by the book. In Disney's version their is quite a significant change from the Kingston novel. Disney does not discuss the stages of Mulan growing up from a child to an adult, it starts when she is a teen. Disney also did not have any mention of a bird coming to the girl while she was in the woods or any old people taking her in and training her to be...
