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APPENDIX “Mulan” Synopsis

  Mulan is her pa rents’ only child, so her mother wants to give her the best of life, included good husband. So, her mother arranges meeting with the matchmaker in the morning. Unfortunately, Mulan is very clumsy at the matchmaker’s place.

  Therefore, the matchmaker refuses to help her mother to find a son in law. Mulan feels bad for being failed to fulfill her mother’s expectation; therefore she goes home and does a reflection about her behavior earlier.

  Hearing that Mulan is sad, her father comes to comfort her. Suddenly, royal advisor, Chi Fu comes to announce that there is a Hun

• – Asian who comes for an aim, for example territory expansion, etc- named Shan Yu and his henchmen who want to take over China. Therefore, each family is asked to send a man for being a soldier to save China.

Mulan’s family has no young man; Mulan’sfather has to go to receive the mandate. Mulan feels sorry towards her father who has to join military despite of his

  

injury ; therefore she tries to talk to Chi Fu perhaps she is allowed to exchange her

father. Instead of impressed, Chi Fu considers it as disrespectful acts.

  At dinner, Mulan suddenly remembers her father who has to join military;

therefore she tries to speak up her mind. However, her father does not agree with the

idea. Disappointed with her father, Mulan leaves the table. Then, she goes outside to

be alone. When she is alone, Mulan gets ideas to take her father's soldier uniform

without permission and leave the house at dawn.

  At dawn, Mulan starts to run her plans. She wears her father's uniform and

leaves with her horse, Khan and little cricket, Cri-Kee. On her way to battle camp,

Mulan gets nervous if people there find out that she is not a man. Therefore, she tries

to make her voice like a man and practice to hold her father’s sword.

  At the battle camp, Mulan introduces herself as Ping to the captain, Shang.

  Under Shang’s leadership, the soldiers keep improving. However, aware that her team is not ready for battle because of not a single arrow hits the target, Mulan shoots a bomb to a snowy mountain in order to melt it so that it can drown the Huns. When Mulan is setting the bomb, Shan Yu stabs her. The bomb hits the target and starts to melt the mountain together with the Huns. The soldiers run away as fast as they can.

  After reaching camp, Mulanis treated. Doctor who treats her reports that she is not a man. Therefore, she is out-casted.

  Being an out-cast, Mulan is staying on a mountain. Suddenly, when she is outside, the Huns arise from snow. Therefore, she goes to the palace to warn people there that Shan Yu is still alive. Unfortunately, no one at the palace believes Mulan. It turns out her words are true. Shortly after, when Shang is going to present Shan Yu’s sword to the Emperor, Shan Yu’s owl steals it. The other Huns abduct the Emperor and some of them close the door.

  Even though all doors are already closed, Mulan does not give up that easy. She gives codes to her friends to disguise as girls and distract the Huns. The door is opened and Shang fights Shan Yu again while the soldiers save the Emperor.

  Unfortunately, Shang is smacked down when fighting. So, Mulan has to face Shan Yu. She makes Shan Yu goes to the roof, stabs his piece of clothes with sword, and shoots him with fireworks. Even though Mulan has already saved China, Chi Fu does not admit it. Thus, the Emperor gives her sword and award. After receiving the honor, Mulan comes back home and presents it to her father.

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