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Stereotypes In The Woman Warrior

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In The Woman Warrior, Kingston uses simile to compare a pregnant Fa Mulan to a powerful man in order to show how she defies stereotypes and is strengthened by something which most would view as a hindrance. During Mulan's pregnancy, she marches with the foot soldiers and wears her bulky armor to appear as a robust and powerful man, and embrace her pregnancy. She uses her physical transformation during the last four months of her pregnancy in order to make herself appear stronger, which is demonstrated when she says, " I wore my armor altered so that I looked like a powerful, big man" (Kingston 39). Following the birth of her son, she immediately returns to battle with her son in a sling on her back, which she describes as, "At the back of

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