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Was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie successful at reaching her purpose with her intended audience with her speech "The Danger of a Single Story"?
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(Answer) The book “The Danger of a Single Story” is a narrative about how a single perspective of things can be quite harmful. Adichie uses the trope of “stereotypes” and how they affect the whole.
Adichie talks about how a stereotype is a one-sided story, it is a single perspective and it is certainly an incomplete perspective. Yet, this stereotype generally ends up being the most popular opinion of all. Adichie says that it is nothing but a “single story.” In other words, Adichie successfully outlines the dangers and shortcomings of a distorted image and the lack of context that a single story can have.
Even through Adichie successfully makes her point; the true success would be if behaviours are changed as a result of her words. Yet, in understanding that one story is not the only story of a person, has helped Adichie change her own perspective on people. Therefore, she has been successful in a way with her narrative.