Danger of a Single Story

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  • DANGER OF A SINGLE STORY
    • Language
      • ''Fide's family have nothing'' -- reported speech to make description more vivid.
      • ''tribal music'' ---Quotation marks to emphasise how ridiculous an assumption.
      • 'She assumed i did not know how to use a stove'-- stands on it's own as a paragraph to emphasise the disbelief.
      • Repetition of 'no possibility'-- shows gulf of understanding single story creates- Adichie knows she will always be seen as different.
      • ends with metaphorical statement 'we regain a kind of paradise' sgugesting how world could be a better place without single story. RHETO-RICAL DEVICE used to make reader ponder on message.
    • STRUCTURE
      • 'I come from a conventional, middle-class Nigerian family.' this quote is a beginning of a new paragraph, shifting the focus to Fide and a new anecdote.
      • The text begins with the 'danger' of the single story but ends with a solution and positivity- and hope.
      • Repetition of ;single story; to bring readers back to main focus after each anecdote.
      • Chronological
      • Startled by Fide, but shocked her roommate.
    • QUOTES
      • 'I'M A STORY-TELLLER' simple, personal statement, shows no political point of view involved.
      • 'DANGER' immediatley emphasises importance.
      • 'MY  MOTHER SAYS I STARTED READING AT THE AGE OF TWO, ALTHOUGH I THINK FOUR IS PROBABLY MORE CLOSE TO THE TRUTH'-- immediatley introduces idea of having 2 versions of one story, subtly making reader familiar with it.
      • 'SO, I FELT ENORMOUS PITY...' -- 'so' suggests the simplistic way children so easily draw conclusions from what they're told without question.
      • 'DYED RAFFIA'-- colourful, surprises Adichie as she assumed poor people to have grey, colourless lives.
      • 'SNEAKING ACROSS THE BORDER, THAT SORT OF THING' - mimics the hyperbole/emotive language the media use / 'that sort of thing' suggests how casually prejudice can be established.
    • METHODS AND IDEAS
      • FIRST PERSON
      • DIRECT,  CONVER-SATIONALT TONE OF SPEAKING
      • HUMOUR AND SELF-CRITICISM
      • ANECDOTES
      • RHETO-RICAL TECHNIQUES

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