Conversation 2

In the transcript “The Danger of a single story” the author Chimamanda Adichie explains her interpretations of having a single story. Adichie grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. She grew up reading American and British books, when it came to stories she believed that all books had to have characters like the ones she was reading. So when she started writing all her stories were just like the ones she was reading. That was until she discovered African authors that changed her views on literature. Discovering these african authors saved her from having a single story on literature. Later on years later she realized that many people all over the world have a single story of places they have never been. When she went to university in the US, her roommate was surprised at how well Adichie spoke English and didn’t think the author knew much about how things worked. Adichie’s roommate had a single story of Africa. Adichie herself was surprised when she visited Mexico and saw regular people living life. The news portrays Mexicans sneaking across the border and fleecing the healthcare sytem. So this made Adichie bring her single story of Mexico on her trip.  The only way to not get stuck with a single story, is by reading different stories from every culture and author. Spreading these stories are just as important as spreading the castrapic ones.