The Danger of a Single Story (Q4)

PLAN

1 - Childhood Experience of stories

2 - Fide

3 - Victim

4 - Call to action

“They ate apples” + “We ate mangoes”

using her childhood = gentle tone

Antithesis = difference in upbringing

Mango = exotic nature to western society

“opened up new worlds for me”

normally seen as positive

Hyperbolic metaphor = unrealistic in comparison to her own story

Fide anecdote

emission of guilt, evokes pathos from audience

highlights how wrong it is to make assumptions

“beautifully patterned baskets”

juxtaposes previous descriptions of fide

detail of description “dyed raffia” = admiration + respect

“I was startled.”

blunt declarative = accentuates shock + strengthens message of single story

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

Single sentence para = ridiculousness of statement

“assumed” = prejudice of roomate

“No possibility” x3

anaphora = how entrenched a single story can become

repetition + tricolon = stresses absurdity of thought

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

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

“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