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María José Álvarez Calderón - A01642098

Evidence 1: The Hero's Journey in Film

Professor: Xiomara Núñez Rodríguez

Campus Guadalajara

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Fa Mulan is a chinese girl whose duty is to honor her family by marriage. She goes to see a matchmaker, who later establishes that she may look like a bride but she is unworthy of a husband. This makes Mulan dissappointed of herself for not being able to bring honor to her family. By following what her heart told her was right she saved China.

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Some soldiers arrived with a imperial decree, which forces a man in every family to serve in war due to the Huns attacks to China. Since Mulan is an only child, her father, who is old and sick, is forced to go. Mulan seeing the condition her father is in and knowing that if he goes he would not come back, decides to cut her hair (to pass as a man) and take his place.

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Mulan's ancestors decide to send her help in her journey. Mushu, a dragon with the job of waking up the ancestors, destroys the statue of the being that was chosen by the ancestors and who was suppossed to help Mulan so he decides to take its place.
The cricket that Mulan's grandma got, tagged along with Mushu in his way to find and help Mulan through her journey.

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With the guidance of Mushu, Mulan arrives to her first day at trainning camp with some funny ideas and weird advice on "how to behave like a man". She makes it through her first day with several attention calls for misbehaving from her superior Shang Li.

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Few days passed on and Mulan is realizing how hard everything is, from trying to make friends to even showering.
Mulan realizes the huge physical effort she needs to keep up with training and the enormous mental strenght and conviction she needs to not give up. She even got sent home from being terrible at being a soldier.

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Not wanting to dissappoint her loved ones, Mulan decides to use her talented mind and try to wind up the challenge no one at camp got to complete: climb a pole and bring down an arrow.
After achieving putting down the arrow, she gets better and in no time she is the best soldier in all camp, proving that she is "man enough".

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Mulan's camp gets called to fight in the front. Over there they face the Huns, who easily outnumber the chinese army (from which only Mulan's troop is left). As the canyons are running out, Mulan decides to take one and create an inventive plan; she launches the canyon and it creates and avalanche which helps the chinese army gain advantage and believe they won. Mulan is praised by her abilities and even Shang congratulates her.

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In the attack, Mulan was hurt. The doctor discovers Mulan and tells everyone she is a woman. They treat her as a traitor and left her in the mountains alone to recover or die.
Mulan wants to give up and give into the depressive feelings of not bringing honor to her family. Mushu and the cricket try and fail to cheer her up.

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When she was about to give up, she sees the eagle of the Huns leader, which means there are some Huns still alive and she has to warn the troop. Mulan decides to go and warn the troop, embracing herself as a women.

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Mulan embracing herself, arrives to China's Imperial City to warn Shang about the Huns. He didn't listen and tried to make Mulan go away. Mulan tries to warn some other people at the city but soon learns that no one would take her seriously for being a woman. Which disappoints her but it does not makes her give up.

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The Huns rappidly appear and kidnap the Emperor leaving all the soldiers outside. Mulan with her quick and creative thinking creates a plan which involves the use of her skills and clothes as a woman, she teaches it to some of her friends who dress up as women to play their part in the plan. This plan makes them able to arrive on time before the Huns kill the Emperor.

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Mulan not wanting to return home just yet, decides to save Shang's life from Shan Yu, the head of the Huns, who was about to kill Shang.
Mulan and Shan Yu dueled at the roof of the palace.

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With Mushu and Cricket´s help and some fireworks, which blew as she flew through the sky escaping the destiny Shan Yu was a about to fall apon.

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By result of her well elaborated plan Mulan defeated Shan Yu.

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The Emperor tell Mulan all of her faults, which were a lot and some of them very severe (everyone thought, even her, that she was going to get a very severe punishment), and he ends with thanking Mulan for saving them and all China with her strenght, and courage.

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Everyone, even the Emperor, bows at Mulan for saving China.

The Emperor offers her a place being part of his royal advicers, but she refuses because she wants to return home. The Emperor gives mulan some symbols of her honor and bravery to take home.

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Mulan arrives home with the desire of making amends with her family for leaving them in dishonor. She meets her father and gives him the symbols the Emperor gifted her, but her father only wants her daughter.
Mulan's grandma and mother would have prefered if she had bringed a husband when captaing Shang arrives wanting to court Mulan. Mulan and Shang get engaged a few moths after.