The author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks about people having their ideas about people formed around a single story, and shows this in her story “The Thing Around your Neck”. A short story about a young immigrant coming to America after hearing only one story of Americans. In the very beginning she makes it clear that she has a very specific idea of what Americans will be, “You thought everybody in America had a car and a gun…” (Adichie 115). She has had the idea of all Americans being wealthy taught to her, and so has her aunt and uncle who told her such. She has this image that all Americans are wealthy and well off, and that America is the land of milk and honey, which is shattered from her very beginning where the man she is living with
