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The swordswoman's training prepared her for battle because it taught her to become one with nature and learn how to adapt to her environment. She became disciplined, strong, and patient. This related to Kingston because she would hear these stories and it shaped her into the strong woman she became. She became independent from her mother and only relied on herself. An example of something she learned from what the swords woman said was "The first thing you have to learn is to be quiet" (23).

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The sword woman's training helped prepare her for the battles she would fight through discipline and learning and being able to adapt to different situations she might see in real life and within all of her battles. She became extremely patient, wise, and almost became one with nature. She was able to connect to nature very easily. This training applies to Kingston because the mother was trying to almost do the same thing with her daughter, which is very similar to the training the woman faced.

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The swordswoman's training prepared her for battle because she became more disciplined and learned to respect and observe the world around her. She learned how to adapt to different circumstances for battle. She became smarter and more patient, so she knew how to choose her battles wisely. The training provided her with life lessons that shaped her into the person she is and made her wiser and more prepared for battle. This training applies to Kingston because of how her mother told her talk stories that also taught her very valuable life lessons.

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The swordwoman's training prepared her for battle because she observed the world around her and allowed herself to learn from it in order to give herself the best opportunity to overcome her challenges. She learned that patience is the most important thing when learning. On page 23, Kingston writes,   "After six years the deer let me rub beside the. I could jump into the air from a standstill." When she writes, that after 6 years she could jump from a standstill. She writes that patience allowed her to gain skills and that anyone can learn anything, but it will just take time.

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The swordsman training prepared her for battle because it helped her use the world and her surroundings to her advantage. This training made her a better warrior in battle and helped her survive. This training applies to Kingston because her mother used to tell her stories that taught her life lessons that made her a better woman which is similar to the swordsman's training.

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The swordswoman's training helped prepare her for battle by teaching her discipline and strength that she would need to use later. On page 26 it says that her "mother and father taught her how to hit rabbits over the head with wine jugs, then skin them cleanly for fur vests." This shows how she learned to live off of her environment and make the most out of every thing that she finds. This training also applies to Kingston because her mother is teaching her how to survive in the harsh world around her. Kingston is also learning what to do and what not to do in her village and wherever she goes.

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The sword woman's training prepared her for battle because when she trains she is learning about the world around her and teaching her how to be well educated not only about nature but about herself/her surroundings as well. This training can apply to Kingston in a way that Kingston's mother is also teaching her about life and how to 'get through it safely'/independently through the talk stories; both are preparing the woman to be in a certain mentality to focus and adapt- "the first thing you have to learn, is to be quiet".

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the swordswoman's training prepared her for battle because it showed her how to analyze situations and use her surroundings to her advantage (as with the dragon portion of the training). She also learned to pick which battles to fight, which ones would be worth it, which was shown by the incident when she looked in the gourd to see her brother and husband being taken but was told to wait for the greater good. This applies to Kingston because Kingston decided to let minor discrimination in her workplaces and things slide and deal with it in her own way, while also standing her ground in some ways, like page 48-49 where she refuses to type invitations for a banquet because the restaurant wasn't what she thought was right.

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The swords woman's training prepared her for battle because it gave her more respect towards nature and use the world around her as an advantage. She is able to relate the ways of nature to herself. She connects with the animals and realizes that they are actually very similar to her. This training also applies to Kingston because she went through training too as she was learning to fight and become a champion. Kingston has to become one with nature which is very similar to the swords woman. On page 23, Kingston explains what she was learning through her training and how she is connected to animals and nature. "I learned to move my fingers, hands, feet, head, and entire body in circles." She explains that after five years she could copy movements like owls and bats.

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The swords-woman's training helped prepare her for battle when she used the world around her, the way she observed and related to her and her family. This helped make her wiser and more aware when she battled. This training applies to Kingston because she was in training to become a strong warrior to save many, do help herself do this she used the world around her as well where she used only food (berries) and the way animals would act, this would help her become stronger "After six years the deer let me rub beside the. I could jump into the air from a standstill (Kingston 23)." The way Kingston trained with the animals/nature made her realize their is strength and different skills in each living thing and that she can use their skills to become a stronger, wiser warrior, "Every creature has a hiding skill and a fighting skill a warrior can use (Kingston 24).

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The swords woman trains by observing the world around her, and then relating that to herself. She learns how to have patience, and respects animals as if they have the same intelligence and intellect as her. This training applies to Kingston because her mother also taught her life lessons that she could apply to the story and remember. These stories shaped her into the person she is. Nature is the equivalent to her mother within the stories. There are many metaphors on page 23 that can show how she learned from nature. She was able to copy owls and bats, and she could leap like a monkey.

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The swordswoman's training prepared her for battle by learning from the environment around her. She learns to be patient, strong, and self-providing. Page 26 says that "my mother and father had taught me how to hit rabbits over the hedwith wine jugs, then skin them cleanly for fur vests," This shows how she was taught to be able to survive on her own by using nature. The training gave the swordswoman life lessons that she needs to know in order to be a great warrior. In a similar way, the stories that Kingston's mom told her were life lessons that would help her get through the sexist, harsh world. As a result, she grows up to be a strong woman who