The danger of a single story

Each time a story is read or written there is a dangerous risk people are exposed to. On the one hand reading and writing are processes that indeed open people´s minds, stimulate their imagination and transport them to explore situations unseen by eyes. Nevertheless most people are not aware of the hidden aspects about them.  The moment a story is created power conditions it to become a “single one”. Single stories show only one perspective of the matter in concern. They are able to embody people as one thing and only one, over and over again. Subsequently stereotypes become representative of a whole society, which might not present untrue information about them but incomplete. Thus this partial view makes our human recognition more difficult to obtain, emphasizing our differences rather than our similarities. In order to equilibrate visions, readers and writers should be aware of the existence of many stories, reaffirming there is never a single one. Therefore if we can picture in our minds stories variety of societies, places or even humans, we will definitely gain a kind of paradise. 
                                                                                                        Chimamanda Adichie

Adichie, C. (2012). About the author. [ONLINE] Retrieved from: http://www.halfofayellowsun.com/content.php?page=book&n=2&f=2. [Last Accessed 05/22/13]