ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the danger of a single story?
A
that bad stories are unhealthy
B
that lies can be dangerous
C
that stereotypes are often untrue
D
that western literature was boring
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Detailed explanation-2: -Single stories Adichie argues that when there’s only a single story about a group of people, it robs them of their dignity. The single story reduces people, rendering them incomplete, flat, one-dimensional. As a result, it becomes difficult to recognize equal humanity in the characters of a single story.

Detailed explanation-3: -Adichie argues that single stories often originate from simple misunderstandings or one’s lack of knowledge of others, but that these stories can also have a malicious intent to suppress other groups of people due to prejudice (Adichie).

Detailed explanation-4: -Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. 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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Adichie explains that the danger of the single story is that it ‘creates stereotypes’ and that these ‘stereotypes are not untrue, ’ but ‘they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

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