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THE WRITER

Stereotype: A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

The step is how a group of people are regarded by another group of people in that process there is a choice from the moment it is defined the stereotype of a culture and how that stereotype is reinforced by the media, let us take books, newspapers, magazines, films and any other expressive art.

To begin with, the stereotypes Adichie is exposed to in her childhood about characters in a book were the image of American and British people. Being these “about blue-eyed white children who played in the snow and ate apples”. In addition, as Adichie grew up and become more curious she encountered novels written by African authors. There she could realize that the way she was also projected a stereotype. People like her were also characters of stories. The following quote turned down the possibility of bearing in mind “started believing that I had no place in books”.

On the top of that, having travelled to The U.S.A to study at university made also her realize that Nigeria stereotype was regarded as “that it was simply a place of natural beauty but with lots of human suffering”. Thought that she had never thought of “Popular images were not enough to describe the whole reality her country lives in”.

In relation to the paragraph about, Adichie wonder if Mexicans were only what the American said what they were. Having being in Guadalajara herself she could prove that Mexican culture was more than popular images “People were going to work, eating, laughing, smoking, just like people in America”. Not just illegal people.

Coming to a conclusion, over and over again we are shown as set of stereotypes built by a culture of another culture from a single view. However, once within the given stereotype society you realize that there are many more stories to tell. Single persons, individuals, with their worries and happy moments which will not create fiction but real literature.

Chimmamanda Adichie, spoke on connecting cultures at 2012 commonwealth. She spoke about her experiences as reader and writer and the importance of what she terms “realistic literature”. She prefers realistic literature to instruct and delight. Then, Literature has the power of transforming facts into truths. She believes that the discovering of reality demystifies that imaginary world creating a truthful connection with the world. Chimamanda writes the kind of fiction she would like to read. Besides, Chimamanda writes for whoever enjoys that kind of fiction, due to the fact she is a writer who is not interested in Hobbits or alternative universes, readers who love fiction stories or live in a fairy tale would not be her audience; her books are about real human beings living in real places, what she means real literature. Furthermore, her inspiration comes from her father and her mother’s eyes telling stories. To conclude, realistic literature in books makes her happy and her world goes about her own creation.