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    Akshay Wuppuluri

    Mrs. Moosman

    IB LA 11

    27 August 2020

    The Danger of a Single Story


    Adichie was a very creative and inspired person when she was a child. She started

    writing, reading, and getting creative at a young age and read foreign books from America and

    from the British. They all had one thing in common; the books only had white people with blue

    eyes. Adichie started drawing those generic drawings and started writing stories about them as

    well. What she learned was that at a young age, children are vulnerable to what they read, see,

    and hear. They are left with an imprint about what they should read and write and listen to and

    do, which carries on throughout their lifetime as they age from children, into teenagers, into

    adults. Soon, she saw and read African books, which caused her to have a mental shift in her

    perception of the literature she had started reading. The discovery of African writers saved her

    from having a singular story of what books are. African writers expanded her way of thinking.

    She didn’t see just one story, she saw millions.

    When Adichie came here to America, her roommate fell for the single story that many

    people in American see and think of when they hear the word Africa or African. In America, we

    are told that in Africa there are a lot of poor people who walk miles and miles for water, who

    don’t drive cars and such, who are always fighting diseases like malaria and AIDS but that is

    what we see and that is what we are told by the news and by the internet and by our parents

    and our elders. But in Africa, things may be different as not all are poor and the conditions
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    there are getting better. This is the single story that we Americans believe in and this is how it is

    created, showing people as only one thing, over and over again and they become that thing

    that people are showing, spreading, and being told about. Without seeing a variety of different

    perspectives, we get single minded and don’t tend to expand our way of thinking. Believing in

    your single story only will confine you to a space that will not allow you to explore and expand

    your horizons.

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