Watching the video of “The danger of a Single Story”. She talks about beginning to write by the age of 7. She would write her story’s based on the characters she would read about. Have blue eyes and blonde hair, played in the sun and drank ginger beer. Though she didn’t even know what ginger beer was or seen it her self she imagined that the books she was readying was how typical and life is outside of her country. Her belief that books by its very nature had to be about them. Her father a middle class professor and her mother was a administrate. She grew up in a middle class enjoinment by her country’s standards of living. She became friends with a poor boy. Coming to America she soon would be bunked with a American roommate. Which was given a stereotype as couldn’t speak well English and came from a poor background. At the time she felt she was stereotyped and didn’t see much by it because she found out she was quilt of stereotyping others by the books she would read and write for herself. Years in the United States as a African and understanding her roommates perspective but seeing the truth of a African culture she showed her roommate empathy and sympathy to relate to her about what she views from her point of view, to better understand
She begins to grow a later more into language by the help of a professor who gets her to challenge herself to write stories from another view. Example would now when you write a story about the ships arriving on to the Indian shore ground talk about the Indians shooting a arrow then you have entirely different story. Its a point where she was giving a challenge in life about understanding the views from all points of view then understanding it from a single point but having a chance to view from multiple angles and choosing to understand all aspects of culture and to understand how we are all different. She begin to understand that single stories separate people but if you write a equal point of view then it wont cause a separation of a specific audience but rather a wider spectrum of audiences to read her stories. She then wanted to bring up the struggles of hardships of woman have in Kenya being publicly recognized for there success in Kenya for helping and laying a road for others to have success. At the most influence part she wanted to help others find success as she had in life growing through literacy as she had with reading books, writing stories, and visiting other country’s and going to college. She wanted to open reading workshop classes, building library’s and organizing events. Her philosophy and most important value to her is stories matter and it can empower and humanize people. She also believed a single story of anyplace we can gain a very kind peaceful paradise.
Stereotypes always exist in even the furthest remote places in the world. Anything that is new or haven’t been seen or cant speak the language will be feeling the eyes of stereotypes. Even the ones that don’t know the word stereotype or even have it in their language but the emotion they would feel to another human being will be stereotyped. Stereotypes is something we all can wish didn’t exist to create a equality of all man but we even typically stereotype people by social class status to the color of are skin to even the car we drive. As she begins to grow into a Knoblauch ideas of literacy from functional literacy to critical literacy for other country’s to keep their power by keeping people inside their country less knowledgeable to understand and learn literacy themselves to keep the current government into power. “Literacy and the Politics of Education” by C.H. Knoblauch defines Critical Literacy as a method in which language practices objectify and rationalize these conditions and the extent to which people with authority to name the world dominate others whose v8050 pioneer avenue #605 anchorage ak more critical literate with trying to being people to understand more about her home country and how she realizes that stories can help or hurt depending on how you say them to the listener of the story being told.
In conclusion I have to say that when she final comes to the end of the 18 minute videos about using her life and stories to have a impact on others and to use them to help others from her country and back home where she grew up. It should that recognizing her own faults in life and connecting the dots with a very spoken influence professor to push her to a new level of thinking into a critical literacy aspect of view she knew she can too have that power of influence to others by showing the building blocks off success can cause change. Not all change can be changed in a day or week but in a century it can easily be achieved. I can see as she tells her story she has a way to connect to people on a level of a high emotional intelligence and is very sociable to incline and relate to people how they must think. She wanted to create change without creating a change with a bullet or gun but rather achieve change by learning to ready and tell the world to listen rather then see but hear to have the impact she seeks for others back home to recognized for their own success and also tear the walls of a visual examination to a auditory understanding so all can have achieve a high literate success as Knoblauch pointed out to create change without just doing enough to just get by in life unless your happy without any change but to achieve change you must become a high critical literacy thinker and educator to tear down the walls and allow for change to occur. She will achieve change for country and also help influence others back home as she reads to them and builds library’s to help create the change she is seeking to build a better paradise and allow the stories to keep being written and told for all those who want to hear and read for themselves.
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg
Reference
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story [Video file]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watchv=D9Ihs241zeg
Knoblauch, C. H. (1990). Literacy and the politics of education. The right to literacy, 74-80.
Scribner, S. (1984). Literacy in three metaphors. American Journal of Education, 93(1), 6-21.
Michael Delano 