Adichie_The Danger of A Single Story_Analysis

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LANG: What does the whole text discuss?
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LANG: What does the whole text discuss?
the cultural ignorance she has encountered in America
LANG: What effect does a humourous tone have on the reader?
Where in the text does the writer use humour?
It makes the reader want to side with her.
"crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read"
LANG: Where in the text does the reader use emotive language?
What tone is created due to this technique?
"How impressionable and vulnerable we are"
A serious tone
LANG: Where does the writer use consonance?
How does this make girls who look like her sound?
What does this say about American literature?
"skin the colour of chocolate whose kinky hair would not form ponytails"
It makes them sound ugly
It shows how unfamiliar these kinds of girls are in American literature
LANG: Where else (not "crayon illustrations") does the writer use humour?
Why does she do this?
"Finish your food"
To attract the reader
LANG: Where does the writer critisize her own ignorance?
Why does she do this?
"their poverty was my single story of them"
She does to show the reader that she knows what she's talking about
LANG: Where does the poet use plosive alliteration?
What emotion does this show?
"Patronising, well-meaning pity"
This shows repressed anger
LANG: When describing the Mexican market, what kind of verbs does she use?
Give a quotation for this
What does this say about the culture there?
basic verbs
"rolling up tortillas in the market place, smoking, laughing"
This shows that it's normal
STRUC: Where does the writer use juxtaposition? State the 2 lists
What does this say about two cultures?
"They played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked about the weather"
"We didn't have snow, we ate mangoes and we never talked about the weather"
This shows the cultures are very different
STRUC: Where does the reader use a short sentence to attract the reader?
"Now, things changed when I discovered American books"
STRUC: Where does the writer use a caesura? Why does she do this?"African writers did for me was this: It savedme from having a single story of what books are." She did this to draw the reader's attention to the next lineSTRUC: Where does the writer use a single-sentence paragraph? What does this say about this American girl? What effect does this have?"She assumed that I did not know how to use a stove" This shows that the American girl was very ignorant This shows the shocking truth of some people's knowledgeSTRUC: What does the writer repeat to show her desperation?"No possibility"STRUC: Where does the reader describe the stereotypical view of Africa? What technique was used here?"Beautiful animals (...) fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty" ContrastSTRUC: When talking about only hearing one story, what does the writer repeat? Why does she repeat this particular phrase?"One thing" To show the danger of only seeing one thingSTRUC: what does the writer repeat to show how passionately she feels about this danger?"stories matter, many stories matter"STRUC: Where does the writer use contrast to show the negative effects of influence?"Stories can break (...) stories can repair"CONT: Where was the author born?Nigeria