In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay “The Danger of the Single Story,” she discusses how “impressionable and vulnerable” people, especially children, are in the face of a story (1). Explore how this idea and others that her article raises are relevant and applicable to Sherman Alexie Jr.’s “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me” or to Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” How, for example, do Alexie or others who have preconceived notions about what it means to be Indian believe in a particular “story” about Native American culture? How does McIntosh have a single story about what it means to be white? Why, in their view, do these limited perspectives exist? What are the outcomes of limited views of people or of the world? What suggestions for a reevaluation of these notions do Adichie and Alexie or McIntosh implicitly or explicitly recommend in their texts?
