the danger of a single story

all annotations are IN ORDER!! use blank anthology copy to do this as aid

form

speech

audience

ted talk

purpose

inform/educate/raise awareness

ideas

negative impact of society of stereotyping

perspectives

perspective of sm1 who has been a victim of a single story AND victim of other ppl’s single stories

lines 1-20 annotations (3)

I’m a storyteller.	short declarative	authoritative, self-assured
they played in the snow… We didn’t have snow…	paralleling but juxtaposing lists	contrast literature w her life
impressionable vulnerable	emotive adjectives	easy to be influenced

lines 21-45 annotations (3)

one Saturday Years later	temporal refs	anecdotal - story of own life development
I was startled.	short declarative	shock + guilty of single story
their poverty was my single story of them	personal pronoun	she’s also guilty

lines 46-70 annotations (3)

She assumed that I did not know how to use a stove.	declarative single sentence paragraph	shock at extent to which a single story can affect views
single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe. In this single story, there was no possibility…	repetition	emph point + purpose
fleecing the healthcare system, sneaking across the border, being arrested at the border	triad	negative single story of Mexicans - single story affects ppl from both 1st + 3rd world (this is now her 2nd anecdote ab her falling victim to a single story but its from america not nigeria)

lines 71-84 annotations (4)

show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over	repetition	emph meaning of single story + impact
Stories matter. Many stories matter.	short sentences repetition	drive home point + emph purpose (inform)
to dispossess and to malign to empower and to humanise	parallels - antithesis	power of stories, both negative + positive
a kind of paradise was regained	metaphor	innocence + purity through literature