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Was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie successful at reaching her purpose with her intended audience with her speech...

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.

Hayet Jeridi answered 4 months ago
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