Matt Haig The Human Stereotypes

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In the book “The Humans” by Matt Haig the alien needs to learns how to adapt to the ways of the “The Humans” so he can fit into the human society on Earth.
The Danger of a Single Story - Chimamanda Adichie: Literature can end up presenting stereotypes, and those stereotypes can lead an individual into changing one’s way of life/one’s self in order to fit into society.
The Writer’s Responsibility - Margaret Atwood: “When we take an author seriously, we prefer to believe that her vision derives from her individuals and subjective and neurotic tortured soul.”

This describes the way the world interoperates information. A real world example of this would be how during the news there are only negative thing

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