The Dangers Of A Single Story Analysis

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A Speech With More Than One Story I am Monise Ghandchi. I am a 17-Year-Old persian girl who holds many personalities. I am energetic, athletic, generous, loud, quiet, innocent, guilty, and etc. However, the youths i grew up with narrowed my presence down to one thought. A single story. Although i’ve wondered, I never actually knew why people at my school wouldn 't interact with me since I’ve always been extremely friendly and generous towards anyone who got to know me. Then again, not many people tried to get to know me. I remember trying so hard to make friends that i have even straight up asked other kids if i could be their best friend. All they would do is give me an odd look and brush it off, ignore me, or shout at me until i went away. Needless to say, my strategies of not …show more content…

The ethics behind this way of thinking was best elaborated by Nigerian novelist and writer, Chimamanda Adichie. Her persuasive and intellectual speech, “The Dangers Of A Single Story,” opened my eyes towards what I’ve been experiencing for a large portion of my life. This new understanding that Adichie helped me discover about people who neglect to take in mind the history that each person holds, allowed me to cope with these issues. However, it is important to know that other people who’ve suffered the same consequences of people’s ignorance, often don’t have the same levels of confidence or understanding to just get up and move on from the situation. There are people like me who decide not to pay attention to people who don’t bother seeing more to me, or there are those who let their lack of knowledge affect them and basically let other people tell them what kind of person they are. I encourage all of you to be your own person. I encourage you all to be the biggest person you can possibly be and truly make your colors show. I discourage labels and I believe that anyone can rip labels off of themselves as easy as they could place them

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