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Mulan
-Feels she is dishonouring her family by not being the type of 'lady' or 'wife material as society says she should be.
-Father called to war, she sneaks away at night in his place
-Faces the struggles of keeping up with training and keeping up the pretence that she is a man
- Proves herself when she saves their troops and buries the Hun army alive
-They discover she is female and her life is spared but she is sent home in shame
- discovers a secret plot to kill the emperor of china and ends up defeating the Hun leader and saving china
- Becomes a hero of china saves her family honour Theme- Finding and embracing ones talents and uniqueness
Mean girls
-Cady is new to town starts school as the new kid with no friends
-Meets two outcasts …show more content…

The hunger games
-Katniss a girl from the seam who poaches despite dangers of execution to keep her family alive takes her sisters place in the hunger games
- Earns the love and support of many capital viewers with her story of being “star crossed lovers” as for one to survive the other cannot
-Fake a suicide in order to force the hand of the capital to allow two victors
- Fake a marriage and baby to attempt to stop the rebellion their small act of defiance inspired
- Thrown into another hunger games together. Real love begins to grow
-Arena broken into and some victors including Katniss are rescued Peeta is captured by capital
-Katniss becomes the driving symbol of the rebellion rallying and inspiring the rebels
-rescue Peeta whose mind has been altered by the capital work on helping him decipher true memories from fake

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