Danger of a single story Flashcards
Logos
Building an argument
Pathos
Appeals to the emotions, make the audience feel.
Ethos
demonstrating credibility to the audience
Although i think four is probably close to the truth
ethos, establishes credibility
My poor mother was obligated to read
Pathos humour
I was reading: all my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out.
Listing, uninspiring.
We didn’t have snow, we ate mangos and we never talked about the weather.
Juxtaposition, direct opposites.
Impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story
More serious, emotive language, collective pro noun-‘we’
Mental
Hyperbole.
I loved those American and British books I read
Complimentary- engages the audience, does not want to hurt any member of the audience
But the unintended consequence
MAke sure she doesn’t sound bitter.
So what the discovery of African writers did for me was this: it saved me from having a single story of what books are.
Colon draws importance to following clause, ‘saved’- is contrast to title, ‘danger’.
‘finish your food don’t you know? people like Fides family have nothing
Pathos-humour, relatable.
Their poverty was my single story of them
Logos- critiques herself.
‘tribal music’- Mariah carey
Contrast, humour, pathos.
She assumed that i did not know how to use a stove
One sentence para reflects a limited view.
No possibility, no possibility, no possibility.
Repetition.
My roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe
Parallel structure, highlights limited view and that x=x.
I would see Africans in the same way that I, as a child, had seen Fides family
Draws parallel between herself and roommate, sharing rew[psoniblity and using logos
fleecing, sneaking
negative connotations about Mexicans.
that sort of thing
dismissive tone. suggesting that writer has moved on from those views.
In the marketplace, smoking, laughing
Lack of conjugtion= endless list.
I had bought into the single story of Mexicans
The phrasal verb suggests choice.
Storys can break the dignity of people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
juxtaposition, emphasises possibility with stories.
at the end, when we, we regain a kind of paradise
Collective pronoun repeated = shared responsibility.
