Danger of a single story Flashcards
Early
Verb - quick learner and high achiever
Impressionable and vulnerable
Adjectives - children but often also adults can internalise stereotypes and prejudices
Shift
Her persepective on English language changes from only reading books about the stereotypical white people to realising there are books about her culture
Stirred
Verb - promoted and inspires her imagination to write new books
Opened up new worlds for me
Metaphor - American and British books opened up new cultures for her. They inspired her imagination to become a writer.
Conventional
Adjective - traditional family
Nothing
Idiom - feel pity for them
Startled
Adjective - she had assumed their life was deprived as she’d been told of their poverty. She realises her internal prejudice and assumptions about poverty yet she realises it can be creative and beautiful.
Single story
(STRUCTURE) repetition - danger of internalised assumptions
Years later
(STRUCTURE) Time marker - signifies a change in time
Assumed
Verb - so shocked at how a presumption has been made about her
Patronizing
Adjective - implies her roommate feels superior to her
Catastrophe
Noun - causes greater suffering
No possibility
(STRUCTURE) - anaphora - repetition of negatives to show how narrow minded such assumptions are
Kind, white
Implies Americans are superior to Africans and that Africans need their aid. Stereotype perpetuated by western media
