Darroch Koel English102 Dave Rick 3 February 2017 Chimamanda Adichie’s: Danger of a Single Story “The Danger of a Single Story,” by Chimamanda Adichie is a very powerful and moving story. Chimamanda uses some very specific rhetorical techniques to try and shed light on a problem that she sees that needs to be fixed. Her Audience is the everyone of all ages, but more specifically to white Americans. The purpose of this Ted Talk and story is to get people to open their eyes as most people including Chimamanda didn’t grow up seeing both sides of the story. Chimamanda explains a little bit about her background and where she came from and builds off that into ethos, pathos, and logos to help explain her message that sometimes the truth is right …show more content…
Chimamanda was a girl with many stories. She begins to use a lot of emotion in her talk to pull the audience in and successfully does this through real life stories. She talked about how despite popular belief, not all Africans came from a broken family and that not all Africans are poor. Everyone in their lifetime goes through hardships and it’s all about how a person reacts to those hardships. She talked about how her cousins died in refugee camps, because the health care was so poor. Another thing she mentioned was how her best friend died in a plane crash, because the fire trucks had no water to put the flames out. Or how she grew with an oppressive military government that didn’t value education, especially for women. These are all things that inspire the audience, because the points he made hit home emotionally. The most powerful quote in the whole Ted Talk was when Chimamanda says, “The problem with stereotypes is not that they’re untrue, but that they’re not always complete”. This quote is the main message of her whole story because so many times nowadays people jump to conclusions without thinking that despite popular belief there could be a second side to the