Here are the themes:
1) The oppression of women ultimately leads to their strength.
AND
2) Simple folk stories and whatnot can have a great impact on modern society.
Here are the explanations:
To depict the Theme #1 I created a portrait of Fu Mu Lan/Kingston. Her back displays without explicit gore, the word “revenge” to merge Kingston ’s oppressed livelihood with the fable (to create the impression the Kingston is actually Fu). And her face has dragon scales riddled under her super serious and mildly intimidating expression to radiate the mood that you should not mess with this all-business woman, because she’s been training and is out to cut your racist bosses for calling her derogatory names. The dragon in the story resembles a higher wisdom that Fu has peeked at during her nature survival experiences. This painting relates to the theme in the sense that the dragon scales signify her training with the oldsters and her accomplishments (since during the cutting process she confessed that if not for her days in the mountain, she would not be taking the pain so well).

Theme #2 is portrayed as a cute little black and white illustration humorously portraying Fu smashing racial slurs with a hammer made out of inspiring words. This ties in with the theme in that the narrator compared herself to Fu that they both have haters, but their words will conquer the world. Instead of just sitting by and taking the “cutting,” Kingston has decided to take her experiences and the story of Fu Mu Lan and go out and make it known that she is not a “chink” or whatnot, and gain respect/ win her own war.
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