Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie's The Danger Of A Single Story

Have you ever stopped to think about the danger it can be to read a single story? Have you ever stopped to think if you and the author have the same ideas or opinions? Have you ever read something and were convinced of what you read? It happens all the time that we are convinced of something we truly know nothing about. Most times, our beliefs don’t come from experience, but what we are told. A speaker Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie explains how dangerous a single story can be because it might mislead the reader in believing exactly what he/she is reading. Adichie’s argument, “The Danger of a Single Story” is explained using her stylistic techniques which are examples and organization which correlate to pathos and logos. Adichie’s argument explains how dangerous it can be to

The use of her repetition correlates to logos in the way the situations she had experienced gave her a reasonable way of thinking and understanding the danger of a single story. Adichie’s experience with the one image she had a Adichie’s family as poverty because all she was ever told was how poor his family and he was. In another example, Adichie states, “my roommate had a single story of Africa, a single story of catastrophe.” Adichie’s roommate had only but a negative image of African’s and of Africa that were to her poverty, because that’s all she had ever known about them. Moreover, Adichie shares when she went on her trip to Guadalajara and prior to that trip she had object immigrant in her mind. Adichie says, she would hear about “Mexicans that were fleecing the health care system, sneaking across the boarder.” Adichie shares when she went on her trip she saw Mexicans going to work, rolling up tortillas and she felt surprised and overwhelmed with shame. Since all she would hear and read were object immigrants with negative stories that were told that’s the one thing and the only thing they had