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Shang : Okay gentlemen, thanks to your new friend Ping, youll
spend tonight picking up every single grain of rice. And tomorrow, the real work begins.
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4.4.2 Telling the impending danger
The next effort is by telling the impending danger to the people in the city. After her disguising was revealed, Mulan was finally abandoned by the troops in
the snowy mountain alone. She still had good fortune because she was not killed because she had saved Shang’s life before. Although she had deserved well of the
army by defeating the Huns and saved Shang’s life, it did not guarantee that Mulan would be well received in the army.
Afterward, she decided to go home. However, when she planned to go home, she found that Shan-Yu and some of his troops survived and went to city.
Knowing that it could endanger the city and the emperor, Mulan decided not to go home. She went to city for warning Shang that the Huns survive from the
avalanche and have been in the city. 30
Mulan : Shang, The Huns are alive, theyre in the city.
Shang :
You dont belong here Mulan, go home.
Mulan :
Shang, I saw them in the mountains. You have to believe me.
Shang :
Why should I?
Mulan :
Why else would I come back? You said youd trust Ping. Why is Mulan any different?
1:07:03 – 1:07:29 The conversation above was between by Mulan and Shang. From the
conversation above we can see one of problems faced by Chinese women. When Mulan comes to city she warned Shang directly. Then Shang answers ‘you don’t
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belong here Mulan, go home’. It shows that Shang did not expect Mulan’s presence. Shang had hated Mulan for her disguise as a man was revealed. Mulan
tried to convince Shang again. However, she found that Shang did not believe in her anymore because he had known that Mulan is female. It can be seen from the
sentence ‘why should I?’ It shows that Shang would never believe what a woman said.
Because of her effort to convince Shang was not working, Mulan tried to look for other people in the city who wanted to believe her. However, the result
was still the same, no one believed her because she is female. The datum below reflects the situation.
31 Mulan
: Sir, the emperor’s in danger
Man 1 rips his shoulder away from Mulan’s touch and moves away.
Mulan : But the Huns are here
Mulan : Please you have to help me.
Man 2 walks away from Mulan.
Mulan :
No one will listen
Mushu : huh? Oh, I’m sorry, did you say something?
Mulan :
Mushu Mushu
: Hey, you’re a girl again, remember?
Disney’s Mulan compiled by Bryan Adams, page 26 of 32 The conversation above took place between Mulan and Mushu when she
looked for people in the crowded when they celebrating the victory of defeating the Huns. They welcomed Shang and other armies back to the palace.
Nevertheless, she failed to convince people. All men ignored her. They went away if Mulan approached them. It can be seen from what Mulan said ‘No one will
listen’ Then Mushu replied ‘hey, you’re a girl again, remember?’ From the conversation it can be seen that Mulan was desperate to look for people who
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wanted to believe her. No one wanted to believe her because she was a female. Her words would be ignored. It was different from when she disguises as a man. It
would be easy to her to convince men. Nevertheless, now people would never believe in her again because she did not disguise as a man. Here we see that
women were regarded as nothing. In addition, they also do not have right to speak as men had.
4.4.3 Saving the emperor
