The Danger Of A Single Story

Question 1

How does Adichie create a sense of prejudice in the story? Para 1

Answer 1

She uses anecdotes from her life to show how his fits into her life and to provide examples of the prejudice she has seen

• fide and how ‘it had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something’
• “she assumed I did not I ow how to use a stove” sentance on its own to hilight the ridiculousness of it.
• quad colon ‘watching people going to work…laughing’ to show how her perception of Mexicans had been so wrong

Question 2

How does Adichie create a sense of prejudice in the story? Para 2

Answer 2

Speaks about how this effected her in her childhood

• ‘about the age of seven’ shows that she was naive and uneducated, without cultural experience
• 2 tricolons show the contrast between her lifestyle and what she assumed to be the only other, normal lifestyle
• ‘skin with the colour of chocolate’ similie to show the happiness she was bought when she realised through other authors that books could be about any type of person

Question 3

How does Adichie create a sense of prejudice in the story? Para 3

Answer 3

She is clearly a very intelligent girl and uses sophisticated language to show this and engage the reader

• mentions that she was an ‘early reader’ and an ‘early writer’
• ‘my father was a professor. My mother was an administrator’
• mentions specific authors like ‘chinua achebe’ ‘cámara laye’ and a quote from ‘Alice walker’ to show her love of reading and literature. This relates to the title ‘single story’ which is a metaphor that shows how dangerous stories can be if we only look at things from one point of view