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Describe how Ms. Adichie developed a story about what life should be like by reading books from England and America. Write 2-3 sentences. Ms. Adichie began reading and writing when she was extremely young and had a mind full of imagination. Her idea of life consisted of white people living simple li...

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1. Describe how Ms. Adichie developed a story about what life should be like by reading books from England and America. Write 2-3 sentences. Ms. Adichie began reading and writing when she was extremely young and had a mind full of imagination. Her idea of life consisted of white people living simple lives and participating in simple banter about the weather. She imagined us to be a little redundant as well as a little “silly” for lack of a better word. 2. Why was there a mismatch between what Ms. Adichie read in books and her life experiences? Write 2-3 sentences. Everything in Ms. Adichie’s books were of life experiences she had never experienced. She actually came from a great family that was well-off. The books she read were of Americans and Europeans and their pets. She had painted us with her own view of our “story” of simple people that didn’t really match us either. 3. When Ms. Aditchie went to college, her roommate had a single story in mind about Ms. Aditchie. What was that single story? In what ways was that single story incorrect? Write 3-4 sentences. The single story was that Ms. Adichie was from Nigeria, and in her mind all of Africa was the poor underdeveloped nation that Americans see when being asked to donate to help bring them out of poverty. This was obviously incorrect in the sense that Africa is a very large continent and within is are so many countries of all different races and animals. So many people are educated and wealthy, but America and other countries have painted Africa to be exactly how her roommate described it. 4. Ms. Aditchie clearly thinks that viewing people as having a “single story” is a SOCIAL PROBLEM. Why does Ms. Aditchie believe that it is a good thing for people to try to view other people as having more than a “single story”? Write 3-4 sentences. She thinks it is better to people several different ways because no person is exactly as you see or imagine them. Even though people are of completely different cultural and geographical backgrounds, they can still have similar stories especially similar to the “American” story. It emphasizes differences, rather than similarities in upbringing or experiences, which is something that society is extremely lacking in today with petty arguments and expectations.

5. In what ways might other people view you as having a “single story”? What other dimensions to you are there that other people may not know or that may be known only by people close to you? Write 4-5 sentences People on the outside would probably view me as well-off and a little adventurous, especially if they just looked at my Instagram or Facebook. They wouldn’t know that I have to completely drain my bank account to even go on a short road trip, or that my (single parent) father doesn’t support me financially in pretty much all aspects of my life. It’s not a very well-known fact that Americans are actually very vulnerable to poverty, and that the majority of people in America

that are in poverty are actually white people; this is not the typical “story” people imagine. Individuals have several layers to their story that include positive and negative stereotypes. When she says that they are “incomplete” that really explains it for me....