1. Group F---alemont27

The story “Danger of a Single Story” discusses how stereotypes and knowing people for one thing affects how you see them. This story talks about how she knew a family only for being poor. She had one single story for them and that was that they were poor. She was surprised one day by the fact one of the boys made a beautiful basket. She said “ I was startled. It had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something. “ (Adichie) This shows how she had not thought this family could make things because she had only seen them as poor.

The novel Americanized by Sara Saedi is a book about a girl named Sara who was forced to move to America when Khomeini came to power and put in strict rules that became unsafe. After escaping and making it to the U.S. she lived at her uncle's house. Her sister struggled to get a job without a social security card and they learned their green card applications were lost.

The Danger of a Single Story relates to my book Americanized because Sara faces some people thinking her parents are stereotypical Persian parents. She doesnt think they are and are only 25% traditional. She says, “My mom and dad defied (most of) the stereotypes regularly associated with Persian parents” (Saedi 55). She faces having parents who arent like stereotypes even though people at school may think they are just like how in Ted Talk the speaker thinks the family is poor and can’t do anything. The speaker said, “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” (Adichie). They both face the stereotypes people have from people based off single stories.

Does your character deal with the stereotypes of where they are from? If they don't, do they have stereotypes of people in America?

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