Task 4

"'I am a female avenger.'"(Kingston 43)
"'Girls  are maggots in the rice. It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters."(Kingston 43)
"When I saw his startled eyes at my breasts, I slashed him across the face and on the second stroke cut off his head."(Kingston 44)

The first passage is how Maxine introduces herself to the Baron, the one she blames for the childhood that she didn't have despite creating her fantasy as a woman warrior. The second passage is the sexist statement that the baron states to Maxine right before he is executed. The third passage is how Maxine decides to execute the Baron after showing her back of all the people that he had wronged, and had killed him after staring at her breasts.

What I find surprising about this moment is how she decided to reveal herself as a woman in such an unsubtle manner what I expected was for her to let down her hair and that would be enough for the baron to believe that she was female to my shock she decides to tear off her shirt to what seems as if to exaggerate it. And while Mulan was never really shown brutally killing anybody in the ballad or in the movie adaptation, Kingston beheads him like and animal, and seems to use his sexist statement and his perverted action to justify what slashing his face and beheading him.

Throughout her Mulan inspired fantasy her actions show to be the exact opposite of Mulan. While Mulan is extremely cautious to not show any signs of womanliness Maxine seems to not care and shows multiple signs of it such as marrying a man, getting pregnant, and giving birth. This contributes to a point I made previously of Mulan successfully fufilling her goal as a man while Maxine fufilled her goal but as a woman. This is what she accomplishes by contributing this part. Her pride of being a woman and her little efforts of hiding it.