Thomas King's The Danger Of The Single Story

Thomas King’s book is a collection of intricate stories that exemplify perceptions through an original storytelling method. Commonalities can be derived through both the book and the modules attended to throughout the semester. Carol Dweck’s Mindsets display a connection in relation to King’s theme in chapter one about teamwork, sharing, and organization. King’s story shows of a woman named Charm, her twins, and the animals who display a remarkable curiosity to adjust, form, and diversify their shapeless, bland world. The animals lived their ordinary lives without variation, without questioning reality nor the unreal. This transformed once Charm fell from the sky. Someone abnormal who then merely started observing, questioning, dreaming and

King wrote in Chapter 2, “I want to look Indian so that you will see me as Indian because I want to be Indian, even though being Indian and looking Indian is more a disadvantage than it is a luxury” (Pg. 59). That sentence explains how one might feel being a member of a certain culture that is looked at negatively for their appearance or by stereotyping. As Chimamanda Adichie states during her presentation, “The single story creates stereotype and the problem with stereotype is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete, they make one story become the only

She says the truth is revealed by many tales. She illustrates this with a story about coming to the United States, as a middle-class daughter of a professor and an administrator, and meeting her college roommate. Adichie says that her roommate's "default position toward me, as an African, was a kind of patronizing, well-meaning, pity. My roommate had a single story of Africa. A single story of catastrophe (CNN, 2009)."
I believe that Adichie’s story is very accurate in the way humans perceive what they think they know, as the truth and the only truth. Racism and ignorance about another country by what we see through media and images. As Chimamanda Adichie says, “Show of people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become”. Her powerful understanding of outsider viewpoints in opposition to real life situations makes me look at many cultures in a different way, to view single stories as ill-informed