The American writer Alice Walker wrote this about her Southern relatives who had moved to the North. She introduced them to a book about the Southern life that they had left behind. "They sat around, reading the book themselves, listening to me read the book, and a kind of paradise was regained.”
I would like to end with this thought: That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise
How does Adichie’s use of metaphor most likely affect those listening to her speech?
A. It encourages her listeners to seek out the silver lining in the situations they live in.
B. It inspires listeners to broaden their literary selections.
C. It reveals to her listener's ways to use books to escape difficulties in life.
D. It compels listeners to try to understand themselves.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her speech titled The Danger of a Single Story highlights the various stereotypes that exist across nationalities of the world especially in Africa.
She encouraged people to think broadly about human existence stating categorically "the world is not full of people only like yourself".
If one were to summarize her speech, option D just about captions it all:
People ought to make an attempt to understand other people better. One of the ways to do that is to study other cultures by extending the limits of their literary selection.
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