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What is the central idea of the text the danger of a single story. What hinders the connection of us all is the single story. Whether this passage is a brain twister or a reading passage readers must assume that any lack of understanding is not due to the story but due to their own lack of understanding. Roommate had a single story of Africa.

Our lives our cultures are composed of many overlapping stories. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with secondly Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans and not with the arrival of the British and you have an entirely different story. Writer Chimamanda Adichie warns that if we hear only a single story about another person we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Exam questions ask you to comment on how writers structure their texts to interest the reader. Among all the characters only Simon seems to possess anything like a natural innate goodness. The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete Adichie says in the video.

I must say that before I went to the US. No possibility of a connection as human equals. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country we risk a critical misunderstanding.

No possibility of feelings more complex than pity. This idea of innate human evil is central to Lord of the Flies and finds expression in several important symbols most notably the beast and the sows head on the stake. Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person but to make it the definitive story of that person.

It is often far too opinionated and stereotyped. Whether we are talking about the main idea of a paragraph a poem a chapter or a longer text finding the main idea requires the reader to identify the topic of a piece of writing and then uncover what the writer wants us to know about that topic. A single story of catastrophe.