She did WHAT?!

You don't say? A woman dresses up as a man and joins the army? Woah, isn't the penalty for that DEATH!?
Yes the penalty was death and yes, a young woman in ancient China dressed as a man and joined the army. She did a brave thing, she most certainly saved her father's life. But Disney doesn't exactly give us the straight story. Her real name is apparently Hua Mulan. It is true that she dressed up like a man to save her father, but she actually fell in love with a man named Jin Yong whom she shared a tent with. Hua Mulan is later promoted to General, and this is quite amazing to me. She went for 12 years in the Chinese army and was never discovered. For 12 years! Yet I also find it interesting that Disney turns these stories around this way. Disney shows us what they want us to see and what they believe will keep the audiences attention. The website I used to find this info is:http://www.chinaculture.org
Without a doubt, I would say Mulan is one of my favorite tales of heroism. It takes something special and rare to do something so dangerous out of love, a quality that only comes around once every couple centuries in a person.