Chimamanda Adichie

Narrative Assignment Two
Chimamanda Adichie
1. Adichie's situations is attempting to persuade an audience that a single story, an incomplete perception of how a group of people similar in one or more ways to one another are, is dangerous. To do so, Adichie begins with a story of her life. When she was younger, she'd read many stories, written in English, about European culture. When she began writing she wrote about a lifestyle unknown to her: playing in the snow, eating apples, and talking about the weather, while in her life, there wsa no snow, the people in her community ate apples, and "there was no need to talk about the weather." She believed stories could not be written about people "like her", people with "chocolate skin". All she
The conflict in the speaker's story is overcoming the nature to believe one story to be the only story. Adichie began to realize that there were more possibilities to writing a story than one about whites when she read African books. A new world of possibility was opened to her. Throughout her life, Adichie has been struggling to overcome her own as well as help others overcome the nature to make one story the only story. When living in America, Adichie shares a story about her roomate who believed a single story. The roomate asked to hear some "tribal music and was disappointed when I turned on my Mariah Carey". The roomate was puzzled as to how Adichi spoke English so well and could even work a stove. The roomate had only been told the single story that Africa was a place of trouble, poverty, and unintelligence. Adichie admits that if she had been born in America, she too would have been surprised by her "knowledge" and "American" lifestyle. Adichie realizes that believing what you hear about a person or group of people is the only thing they can be, is detrimental. Adichie's discovery of a world of multiple stories awakened an awareness in her to forever challenge the single story, and to challenge others to do the
With regards to the conflict Adichie learns that everyone, herself included, is in danger of believing a single story to be the only story but that nature is able to be overcome through experience. Adichie learns that many times stereotypes derive from not the incorrect perception of another's way of life, but an incomplete one. "Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans and not with the arrival of the British, and you will have an entirely different story." Adichie's world changes dramatically when she realizes the many stories there are, and consequently the many stories she is made of. "To only look at the negaive stories is to flatten the many stories that made me who I am." Adichie understands that the world, and the many different types of people in it, have many stories and unless all of them are heard, cannot give someone a complete picture of the whole story. And therefore, we are all very much the