The Danger of a Single Story (Q4)

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1 - Childhood Experience of stories

2 - Fide

3 - Victim

4 - Call to action

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“They ate apples” + “We ate mangoes”

using her childhood = gentle tone

Antithesis = difference in upbringing

Mango = exotic nature to western society

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3

“opened up new worlds for me”

normally seen as positive

Hyperbolic metaphor = unrealistic in comparison to her own story

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4

Fide anecdote

emission of guilt, evokes pathos from audience

highlights how wrong it is to make assumptions

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5

“beautifully patterned baskets”

juxtaposes previous descriptions of fide

detail of description “dyed raffia” = admiration + respect

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“I was startled.”

blunt declarative = accentuates shock + strengthens message of single story

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“She assumed I did not know how to use a stove”

Single sentence para = ridiculousness of statement

“assumed” = prejudice of roomate

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8

“No possibility” x3

anaphora = how entrenched a single story can become

repetition + tricolon = stresses absurdity of thought

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9

“dispossess” “empower” “malign” “humanize”

antithetical parallelism = power of stories (informs audience of their importance)

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“we reject” “we realise” ”we regain”

repetition of we = connection to the audience

progression of verb = positive impact on society if we follow her message

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