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The Inner Battles Of Mulan The Inner Battles of Mulan The story of Mulan has been told for hundreds of years in China. Mulan’s tale has been used to motivate young girls to achieve their goals and to teach them that anything is possible. These stories show the strength within such a young person, making children to young adults believe they can be someone to look up to one day. With the help of Disney, this story has been introduced to many more people around the world and through the timelessness of animated features, will continue to for many years to come. There are several versions of Mulan’s story but the two that will be discussed are, “White Tigers” from Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir The Woman Warrior and “The Ballad of Mulan”. These two different versions of the story strongly convey the themes of inadequacy that gender barriers create for women and how loneliness can affect someone. Kingston’s version of Mulan emphasizes these themes and are a reflection of her resentment to Chinese society which has roots in her childhood and stems from the strained relationship with mulan, loneliness, kingston’s, kingston, mulan’s, story, women, chinese, because, mother, just, white, tigers, society, gender, family, ballad, stories, inadequacy, barriers, one, felt, feelings, being, young, woman, very, themes, someone, relationship, part, much, memoir, life, away