"When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves" (19). Talk-story supplied Chinese girls with dreams of becoming more than their culture allows them to. It is through these stories that women live to their fullest extent. The stories exemplify what a woman strives to be, not a mere housewife or slave, but a great warrior. One such talk-story is that of Fa Mu Lan. Throughout the years, the story of Fa Mu Lan has changed from storyteller to storyteller, each with its own dramatic difference. To illustrate the dramatic changes that occur among storytellers, one can compare Kingston's interpretation of Fa Mu Lan's story to Disney's Mulan. In this comparison, we see that aside from the talking dragon, Disney's adaptation of the myth is much more realistic.
One such drastic difference is that of how Mulan enters the war. In Disney's version of this myth, Mulan is at home at the time of her father's......

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Title: Kingston's Mulan
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