"Danger of a Single Story" explains how the exposure of stereotypes at a young age can affect one's perspective of things later on in life. Adiche, from the beginning, told of her experiences with the 'danger of a single story'. "All I heard about them [Fide's family] was how poor they were so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything but poor. Their poverty was my single story of them." Adiche is trying to say that all she ever heard about Fide's family was how poor they were, how they have nothing, so when she was shown the basket that was made out of dyed raffia that Fide's brother had made, she was shocked. At the very end, Adiche said that if you show someone one thing and only one thing, that is what they become. What
