1. First Name: _____________ Last Name: _____________ Student #: _____________Group: _____________
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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Chimamanda
PARAGRAPH 1 : I’m a storyteller. And I would like to tell you...
What is the theme of the stories that Chimamanda (チママンダ) is going to tell you?
Where did she grow up?
When did she start to read?
PARAGRAPH 2 : I was also an early writer, and when I began...
When did she start writing stories?
Were the characters in her stories similar to her or very different?
obligated to何々しなくてはいけない despite the fact that∼のに
no need to必要はない

2. PARAGRAPH 3: My characters also drank a lot of ginger beer...
What drink did her characters always drink? Also, why was this strange?
PARAGRAPH 4 : What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable...
What did she think about books when she was a child?
When did her idea about books change?
impressionable=感じやすい vulnerable=脆弱 in the face of=に対して particularly=とくに
discover=発見する
PARAGRAPH 5 : But because of writers like Chinua Achebe and...
How did Chimamanda’s own writing change after she read African author’s books?
mental shift= 精神的なシフト perception=知覚 kinky hair=縮れた髪の毛
PARAGRAPH 6 : Now, I loved those American and British books...
What was the “good side” of American and British books for her?
What was the “bad side” of these books?
imagination=想像する unintended=意図しない consequence=結果

3. PARAGRAPH 7 : I come from a conventional, middle-class...
What were Chimamanda’s parents’ jobs?
Who was Fide?
How did Chimamanda feel about Fide when she was a little girl?
conventional=この場合：普通 the norm=normal domestic help=ホームヘルパー
enormous=とても大きい pity=かわいそう・泡りみ
PARAGRAPH 8: Then one Saturday we went to his village...
What beautiful thing did Fide’s brother make?
Why was this surprising for Chimamanda?
What was her “single story” of Fide’s family?
impossible=無理 poverty=貧困
PARAGRAPH 9: Years later, I thought about this when I...
Where did Chimamanda go when she was 19?
What 3 wrong ideas (stereotypes) did Chimamanda’s roomate have about her?
PARAGRAPH 10: What struck me was this: She had felt...
How did Chimamanda’s roomate feel about her, even before she saw her?
What was her roomate’s “single story” of Africa?
Why was that a big problem?
default position=ベースライン patronizing=恩着せがまし
catastrophe=大惨事

4. PARAGRAPH 11: I must say that before I went to the U.S....
Why did Chimamanda start to think of herself as African?
What happened on the Virgin Airline’s flight that made her quite irritated?
embrace= accept willingly irritable=過敏な／怒る
PARAGRAPH 12: So after I had spent some years in the U.S....
Where did Chimamanda’s roomate get her ideas about Africa?
What are some common stereotypes about Africa?
incomprehensible=理解できない senseless=無分別な
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PARAGRAPH 13: This single story of Africa ultimately comes, I think...
How did John Locke describe people that he met in Africa?
When did he write this?
PARAGRAPH 14: Now, I’ve laughed every time I’ve read this...
What (unfortunate) tradition was started with John Locke’s writing?
admire=感心する imagination=想像力

5. PARAGRAPH 15: And so I began to realize that my American...
Why did her professor say that her stories weren’t authentically African?
Why is that a problem?
PARAGRAPH 16: But I must quickly add that I too am just as guilty...
What stories did Chimamanda hear about Mexicans in the U.S. media?
PARAGRAPH 17: I remember walking around on my first day in ...
What did she see when she actually went to Mexico (Guadalajara)?
How did she feel?
Why did she “buy into” the single story of Mexicans? (What had the media done?)
immersed=浸した ashamed=恥ずかしい

6. PARAGRAPH 18: It is impossible to talk about the single story without...
What determines how stories are told?
What Igbo word does she use to explain about power structures in the world?
PARAGRAPH 1 9: Power is the ability not just to tell the story of...
Does it matter where you start a story?
According to Chimamanda, who decides where the definitive story starts?
definitive=決定的な
PARAGRAPH 20: I recently spoke at a university where a student told me...
PARAGRAPH 21: But it would never have occurred to me to think...
Chimamanda was angry with the student who thought all Nigerian men were abusive. But she said she could understand he
thought that way because he only had a single story of Nigeria.
Why does he only have a single story of Nigeria?
Why does she have many stories of America?