Danger of a Single Story

"Danger of a Single Story" is a text that explains what single stories are. When people believe single stories, they believe the only thing they read, and think there is nothing more or different. Single stories are stereotypes, often false. On the fourth page, sixth paragraph, it says "they make one story become the only story". Single stories are dangerous because there is more to the story that isn't just negative, that doesn't get told. 

The author has experienced single stories through out her life. Growing up all she read was British and American books, so when she went to write her own story, that is what she would write about. She didn't know people like her were even in books. On the first page, second paragraph, she says "I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed.". The author also experienced being guilty of the single story. Growing up, her mother only talked about her house boy and his family as poor and nothing else. So when she saw there was more to his family then just being poor, she was surprised. On the second page, second paragraph, she explains "All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor. Their poverty was my single story of them".

There are so many single stories around the world. When I was little I loved princess movies. I read so many books and watched so many movies about them. Movies and books like Cinderella gave me a single story though. They gave me a single story on what love should be like. In those movies and books, the prince comes and saves the princess, and they fall in love. So when I was little that is what I believed falling in love was like.