Character Sketch of Adichie Based on the lesson "The Danger Of a Single Story"
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❥❥❥Adichie came from a middle-class Nigerian family. Her parents were educated and employed. In her childhood , what she read were British and American children's books. So when she began to write all her characters were white and blue eyed. So she became convinced that the characters should always be foreigners. But after reading Chinua Achebe and Canada Laye , she realised that people of her country should also exist in literature. She started to write about things she recognized. Though American and British books stirred her imagination , it was African writers who saved her from having a single story of what books were.
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Writer Chimamanda Adichie warns that if we hear only a single story about another person, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
Adichie uses the term "single story" to describe when one considers only one perspective of a person, place, or event. Her examples include her roommate only having heard a general stereotype of everyone in Africa, her own view of literature as a child, and her own view of Mexicans before she visited Mexico.
In the twenty minute video, Adichie describes the powerful impression the multitude of British stories made on her as a young girl growing up in Nigeria. ... She argues that inherent in the power of stories, is a danger—the danger of only knowing one story about a group.