An Analysis of “The Story of Mulan”
In Chen Yu’s rendition of “The Story of Mulan”, a young girl takes her father’s place dressed as a boy to be in the army to defend her country from being invaded. She learns how to fight well in training which gave her advantages to learn rapidly all the while keeping her secret that she was a girl. Mulan shows that she is valuable to her fellow comrades when she uses everything that she has learned to help protect them. In the beginning of the story, her mother teaches her how to “womanly chores” while her father taught her “Archery and horseback riding.” (pg. 2) Mulan spent twelve years undercover to protect her country, learning what it means to be a team player and earning respect from both …show more content…
(pg. 5) At the end of the story, the war ends and all the soldiers go home and the emperor awards her with riches but she declines and “wishes to go home to see her family”.(8)
There are three key points to understand when analyzing this fairytale which includes the audience, the culture and the importance and meaning of the fairy tale. The intended audience for this story is for young children to adults because the author wanted to share a story that generations to come would hear about it. Over the years, there have been many renditions about Mulan, it is especially popular to make them into movies to have more people interested in old stories. For example Mulan (1998), Disney’s Mulan (1998, 2004) and Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009). The story Mulan (also knowns as Hua Mulan), was written in the sixth century during the Wei and Tang dynasty. ( Saterstrom, 2014). The second key point is understanding the culture at the time the story was written because it will help readers understand more about the story. During the 6th century, China started a new age of learning which included new ways of farming, new classes of people and …show more content…
There are three figurative speeches in the story that I found that may be important for readers to know about. The first figurative speech that I found was a hyperbole when it describes in the book that there was the whole southern army of China waiting to ambush the invaders. (pg. 7) The second figurative of speech was there was a hidden metaphor which described Mulan’s father who taught her riding and weaponry skills who was her rock when learning this particular skills. (pg. 2) The final figure of speech was a litotes which was to describe the shock of Mulan’s war comrades when they met her as a woman. (pg.9) Some figures of speech are easily found in stories while other are hidden, but they are there and readers can find them if they take the time to find
In Chen Yu’s rendition of “The Story of Mulan”, a young girl takes her father’s place dressed as a boy to be in the army to defend her country from being invaded. She learns how to fight well in training which gave her advantages to learn rapidly all the while keeping her secret that she was a girl. Mulan shows that she is valuable to her fellow comrades when she uses everything that she has learned to help protect them. In the beginning of the story, her mother teaches her how to “womanly chores” while her father taught her “Archery and horseback riding.” (pg. 2) Mulan spent twelve years undercover to protect her country, learning what it means to be a team player and earning respect from both …show more content…
(pg. 5) At the end of the story, the war ends and all the soldiers go home and the emperor awards her with riches but she declines and “wishes to go home to see her family”.(8)
There are three key points to understand when analyzing this fairytale which includes the audience, the culture and the importance and meaning of the fairy tale. The intended audience for this story is for young children to adults because the author wanted to share a story that generations to come would hear about it. Over the years, there have been many renditions about Mulan, it is especially popular to make them into movies to have more people interested in old stories. For example Mulan (1998), Disney’s Mulan (1998, 2004) and Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009). The story Mulan (also knowns as Hua Mulan), was written in the sixth century during the Wei and Tang dynasty. ( Saterstrom, 2014). The second key point is understanding the culture at the time the story was written because it will help readers understand more about the story. During the 6th century, China started a new age of learning which included new ways of farming, new classes of people and …show more content…
There are three figurative speeches in the story that I found that may be important for readers to know about. The first figurative speech that I found was a hyperbole when it describes in the book that there was the whole southern army of China waiting to ambush the invaders. (pg. 7) The second figurative of speech was there was a hidden metaphor which described Mulan’s father who taught her riding and weaponry skills who was her rock when learning this particular skills. (pg. 2) The final figure of speech was a litotes which was to describe the shock of Mulan’s war comrades when they met her as a woman. (pg.9) Some figures of speech are easily found in stories while other are hidden, but they are there and readers can find them if they take the time to find