Question

The Dangers of a Single Story


what does the author mean when she says “start the story with the arrows of the native americans and not with the arrival of the british and you have an entirely different story?”

Answer 1

Answer:

The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, “secondly.” Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story.