Summary
Adichie gives a speech about a single story, and it’s dangerous, and brings up multiple points throughout her life where she has experienced the single story, and how it affected her. She also brings up points where people have broken single stories on them and changed everyone’s views about them. Gives a speech about a single story, and it’s dangerous brings up multiple points throughout her life where she has experienced the single story, and how it affected her. She also brings up points where people have broken single stories on them and changed everyone’s views about them. After your summary, include a paragraph in which you respond to the speech. Consider the following questions: do you agree or disagree with Adichie’s main argument? Can you relate to Adichie’s argument or any part of her speech? The part of Adichie’s speech that she mentions is how the news and/or the media portray the Mexicans coming over the border into the U.S. Seeing what happening nowadays people are given an image of Mexican people coming over the people as people taking up space in the city, crimes/ danger increasing. What is the relevance of the danger of a single story in our day and age? Maybe social media makes you believe in the single story people put out making you view things differently in a negative way. Why do you think Professor Barnes assigned this reading? To see if we have experienced a single story in our own life and if it changed our views on things.
Damian Ho-A-Lim
