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The Danger of a Single Story (Adichie) Answer the following questions in your own words:

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The Danger of a Single Story (Adichie) Answer the following questions in your own words:

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1.From what we discussed in class last time, why is this video related to the novel?
2.How would you summarize the danger of listening or knowing only one side of a story?

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story

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Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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The Collector (till page 69/70) Each of you should provide a short answer to each of these questions:

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The Collector (till page 69/70) Each of you should provide a short answer to each of these questions:

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1.Who is the narrator?
2.What kind of man is Frederick?
3.What do we learn about his life?
4.What do we learn about Miranda?
5.How does he win £73,091?
6. How does he get to kidnap Miranda?
7. How would you describe their dialogues once they are in the house?

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THE COLLECTOR - PG. 70                  1. The narrator is a man called Frederick Clegg, a collector of butterflies and the kidnapper in the story.
2. Even at the beginning of the story, the reader can see how conflicted and ambiguous a character Frederick Clegg is. On one hand, he seems lonely, emotional, and starved for love, yearning affection that he has not received since his father figure, Uncle 🤬, died when he was fifteen; on the other hand, at moments he seems cold, calculating, emotionless, pure rationality and ruthlessness. A lot of the times, it feels as though Clegg has very muted emotions, and his thought process rarely evokes feelings other than the aforementioned loneliness, yearning, and obsession over Miranda.  There are several instances were he has the option to go back to his original life with little to no consequences, and each time it becomes increasingly blatant that he understands that these options are being laid out for him; yet he still decides to move forward with his plan. With each opportunity to undo everything, Clegg becomes more persistent and less conflicted, as if he is spiralling downwards, away from his humanity and 'goodness'. His duality comes from his treatment of Miranda. On one hand, he, of course, kidnapped her, which is wrong on so many levels, and justifies his actions. On the other side, he treats her kindly, and tries to provide her with almost everything she wants, and doesn't overstep her boundaries (ignoring the kidnapping).

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1) The narrator is Frederick Clegg (also known as Ferdinand by Miranda)
2) Frederick is a sociopath. He seems to be unable to see the line between right and wrong. At first he seems to have limits, he just seems like a slightly weird guy. But as the novel goes on, his actions start to show that he is unable to see the wrongness in his actions.
3) We get to know his backstory. His parents died or left him when he was very young. After this he went to live with his aunt, uncle and cousin. He had a good relationship with his uncle and always enjoyed "collecting" things. When he was 15, his uncle died, leaving him without the one person he seemed to have a real connection with. These events may have been part of what shaped him into the person he became. Frederick is also an amateur butterfly collector, although he worked as a Clerk in the Town Hall Annex.
4) Miranda is a girl in her early twenties. She is smart and a very talented artist who has received a scholarship to study art in London. She is very pretty and, according to Frederick, she is always in a relationship with different boys, which of course he does not like. We know that she grew up in a middle class family and her parents do not have a good relationship.
5) When Frederick was 21, he started to play the football pools (he started betting on soccer games). At the beginning of the novel, he wins 73,091 pounds in the pools
6) Frederick goes through a long process before kidnapping Miranda. According to him, it wasn't always his plan, and yet his actions say otherwise. He watched her, he bought a van and watched her from there, he followed her. He then bought a house that was relatively isolated, and his main motivation for buying the house was that is had a cellar he could keep someone in. He then prepared that cellar for a person to be kept in "comfortably", while also taking every precaution to make sure it was impossible to escape and very hard to find from the outside. When the house was prepared, he once again started to observe Miranda and, finally, when she was walking home one evening, he parked the van next to where he knew she would pass. He had of course prepared the van to restrain her and had a cloth with a mixture of chemicals on it to make her loose consciousness. When she was walking past him, he asked her to stop because he had "run over a dog". She did so, and when she was looking into the van, he covered her mouth with the cloth, causing her to pass out. He got her in the van, restrained her, and drove back to his isolated house.
7) Their dialogues change constantly. Sometimes it seems like they are getting along (as well as can be expected) and sometimes Miranda seems unable to pretend to be comfortable with the situation. Their dialogues usually consist of Miranda asking questions and Frederick feeling defensive and nervous. Somehow, she trusts him more than he trusts her.

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The collector questions SOFIA SANTIAGO

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1) The TED talk is related to “The collector” as the novel is written in the first place, with the point of view of Federick, which is capable of manipulating us into making us think that he is not the bad person, as we see the story from his point of view and instead of Miranda.. The video talks about danger in only looking at one side of a story. According to what we talked about last class, later in the book we will probably see a different point of view of another character in the story, it will probably be Miranda’s point of view.                                                                      2) The danger of listening to only listening or seeing to one side of the story is that you will have a very biased opinion. It is difficult to make conclusions when only knowing one side of the story. To be able to make a fair conclusion it is important to know multiple sides of a story. As sometimes we think that we know everything so we make biased conclusions and start judging the person who is on the “other side” because with the information that we have been given we begin to deduce things which are not exactly sure.

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1) Frederick Clegg, he's obsessed with a young college student called Miranda Grey
2) I'd say that Frederick is sick, he believes that he can make someone fall in love with him by keeping them captive, he has a whole other idea of what love is. He can also be awkward and creepy. Other than that, he's a man who seems to love nature, he's an amateur butterfly collector, he likes photography, he's a perfeccionist. I believe that he has two sides, which makes him confusing
3) We learn that he didn't have the nicest past, specially when it comes to his parents. her mother used to drink a lot and apparently his dad died because of that reason (his mother took him out for a drink). So he spent most of his life with his uncles, which he actually liked, and that in the end he ended up being financially successful.
4) We learn that Miranda loves art, she won a scholarship and was attending to a college that focused specifically on art. We also know what she looks like, since Frederick keeps constantly describing her. We also known that she has a lot of friends, since Frederick has constantly seen her with company
5) Frederick won 73,091$ in a football pool
6) Well firt there's the whole 'background' work he did, he bought a house, bought the things necessary to make it look cozier, he made a room specially for her and also bought her some clothes and stuff. He got to kidnapp her by finding her alone walking down the street, he made up a story and told her that he had acciden

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ted talk
1. this is related to the novel as we get to see the point of view of a victim as opposed to what we see in the book which is the point of view of an agressor. the book is narrated from frederik's point of view, meaning that the reader can be led to believe that he is not that bad of a person. however seeing what actions like his can do to a person, really puts it in perspective how bad of a person he is.
2. the danger of listening to only one side of the story is that the retelling can be distorted according to who is telling it. the agressor might think that what they did is not so bad and that they were doing it for their own good and for the good of the other person. and the victim can also have a warped sense of what happened because of trauma. trauma is etremely common in abuse and it is formed because the brain has no ability to process the event as a memory correctly, meaning that the memory is not stored correctly or completely processed in the brain, this can cause distortion of the memory where the attack feels either less serious, or worse than it actually was. either way we need to listen to both sides of the story. owever i do believe that if we are listening to only one side of the story, we should be listening to the victim.
the collector
1. the narrator is frederick clegg,  clerk at the town hall annex at his home town in england
2. he is creepy, he over analises women as if they were a mistery. he observes from afar until he has enough information to approach them. even though the reader can see how creepy he is, the women that he talks to think he is charming. he has sociopathic tendencies, meaning that to the average person, he is extremely charming
3. he lost his parents when he was very young and was raised by hs aunt annie and her husband. his father died when he was 2 years old nd his mother abandned him. he was close to his uncle but he died when clegg was only 15. thsi led him to being responsible fr himself financially at a very young age.

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QUESTIONS BOOK:
1. Frederick Clegg, a young clerk grown obsessed with teenager Miranda Grey
2. Clegg is an amateur butterfly collector; he compares Miranda's beauty and rarity to the splendor of the butterflies he has seen and captured. He is an antisocial and awkward young man in his mid-20s. With a troubled past, he cannot control or explain what he feels, he just does,
3. Frederick is a young clerk at the Town Hall Annexe of his hometown in England. he was raised by his Aunt Annie and Uncle 🤬 after losing his parents during his youth. His father died when he was two and his mother subsequently left him. Clegg was close to his uncle, but he died when Clegg was fifteen. Despite his new-found wealth, Clegg finds that he is still looked down upon for his relatively low class origins. He tries to have relations with a prostitute but finds himself unable to become aroused. He grows tired of the presence of Aunt Annie and his disabled cousin Mabel; he wants more privacy, especially so that he can buy books with images of naked women, and he gets this freedom when his aunt and cousin go on an extended trip to Australia. Clegg sees them off and makes plans for what to do with his money; in particular, he wants to become more involved in collecting rare butterflies.

4. From what we know so far, Miranda is a young 20-year old art student in London, a fact that proves her to be intelligent. She grew up in a privileged middle-class household. Her father, a doctor, was much older than her mother and their marriage was generally dysfunctional. She is an attractive girl, as Clegg describes her having various on-and-off relationships, and, as she also goes to. Her relationsips, looked at from Frederick's point of view, are usually with boys who don't treat her as she deserves to, which could show instability from her side, a possible need for attention, and naiveness.
5. When Clegg turned 21, he started to play the football pools (a low buy-in, high potential rewards betting system for soccer games). At the start of the story, Clegg has won 73,000 pounds, a vast sum equivalent to $2-3 million American dollars today.
6. With the money won, Clegg buys a house at the offskirts of town, where a he prepares a cellar for a captive, in his view not necessarily Miranda. He then returns to London and searches for Miranda once more. After several days of searching, he figures out where she lives. By this point, Clegg is certain he is going to capture Miranda. He prepares a bed in his van and readies a pad of chloroform to subdue her. Ten days later, on a rainy evening, he sees Miranda getting off the Tube and follows her in his van to a movie theater, where she watches a film until the rain subsides. When she exits, Clegg drives ahead of her to a secluded place that he knows she will pass on her way home. Once Miranda reaches him he asks her if she can help him, and pretends that he has been driving and has hit a dog, which is alive in his van. Once Miranda moves to the open back of the van, Clegg presses his pad of chloroform to her mouth and nose. She struggles, but is finally subdued.
7. Their dialogues are short, yet quite calm. I believe this is because Miranda is trying to appeal to Clegg's goodside, instead of irritating him more. This way, he may fall back and let her leave. At one point, though, Miranda stands her ground, and demands to be released. All in all, the relationship works around lies, and a need for survival.

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1) In my opinion this video is related to the novel ‘The Collector’ as it talks about how there’s always two different sides in a story. In the case of this novel, we get to see the kidnapper’s point of view, when usually all we see is the side of the person who’s being kidnapped. We normally never get to see what the kidnapper thinks or feels or what their intentions really are (for example if they’re planning on killing the victim at one point?), we just assume those things. But in this novel, we get to finally see things from another perspective, if it wasn’t for this, I would assume that Fredrick is just like any other kidnapper. Not like he’s any better, but he doesn’t really have the same intentions. Therefore, the video is related to the novel since  we finally get to see the point of view of a character that we never usually see.
2) The danger of listening or knowing only one side of the story is that we start assuming and judging the other person/belief, etc. Sometimes we think that we know everything so we start judging the person who’s on ‘the other side’ because we believe that the side of the story that we heard is enough to be able to ‘pick sides’ and decide who’s wrong and who’s right, etc.

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TED TALK
1. The TED talk by Chimamanda Adichie deals with, as the title shows, the dangers of relying on a single story. Throughout the entirety of her speech, she presents instances were bias and seeing things from a single perspective created an image that was not necessarily the full reality of the situation. She presented instances of pity directed from people who believed their situation was much better than others because of this biased reality that existed in their minds, and she explained how this, oftentimes, leads to prejudice. To me, the connection between The Collector and our discussion prior to our reading and the video was solidified after I started reading the book itself. The Collector presents a classic story we have seen many times before; the man who becomes obsessed with a girl he feels will make him whole and will fill a void that exists inside of him, and thus decides to kidnap her. What makes it stand out, though, is how Fowles presents this story: with dual perspectives, from both the kidnapper and the kidnapped, but starting out by showing the kidnapper's side of the situation, instead of the victim's. In these kind of stories, the kidnappers are made to be seen as ruthless monsters who are committed to evil, with no ambiguity, since we are often given the perspective of the frightened victim, which, by nature, creates a bias in the story as we sympathise with the victim's situation and scorn the kidnapper's. By starting out the story with the kidnapper's perspective, the reader is forced to take into consideration multiple perspectives right from the beginning, since sympathy for the victim is almost guaranteed to exist due to our moral compass, but seeing the story unfold through the kidnapper's perspective, with almost full access to his thoughts and pseudo-emotions, thus making the reader develop some sort of sympathy, or at least understanding, of his actions. It is only later that we see the full scope of the situation, but the first-person POV that Fowles includes for Clegg allows the reader to begin comprehending the situation from multiple standpoints; we cannot fully despise Clegg because we understand him and we can see why he does what he does, while also developing growing sympathy for Miranda since she is still kidnapped for reasons she doesn't fully understand and with growing dread the more time passes by and the better Clegg treats her, waiting for the other stone to drop.
2. One of the main ideas that is emphasised in the video is that the main danger of telling one story is the creation of prejudices and stereotypes based on having only one perspective. Adichie presents many instances were the telling of a single story created bias and stereotypes that were not a faithful representation of reality, and some were not even true at all.  As she very appropriately said, "[Stereotypes] make one story become the only story." A lot of her examples were based on negative stereotypes and feelings of pity and even superiority from one group of society towards the other; the most memorable example, to me, was when she talked about all the prejudices her college university had against her, as a Nigerian woman (such as her proficiency at English, her social class, amongst others). What I got from the video was the establishment of two types of consequences, ones at a smaller scale, and others at a larger scale; on a smaller scale, it presents a challenge, and maybe even an inabilty, to connect with people authentically as individuals since, instead of considering that there are nuances and multiple situations within each story, only one reality is considered and thus, the person is stereotyped, or isolated within a single group instead of being seen as their own person, in a way. On a larger scale, stereotypes create power dynamics between a powerful group and one that had already been marginalised in some way. Western cultures, for example, are already seen as dominant, so the single-story phenomenon creates stereotypes that threaten to generalise and diminish already disempowered cultures, such as African cultures and countries.                                                                                                                   (Sol Saubidet)

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1. I belive this video is related to the novel since the only point of view we are looking at its the kidnapper's one, not the victim. The woman in this video spoke about the importance of knowing more than 1 point of view, because otherwise it would mean only knowing 1 version of something, which could not be entirely true. The narrator thinks that what he is doing is being done out of love, and he is trying to make us belive that, and that he will never hurt her or do anything bad to her, because he cares about her, which might be a different idea Miranda (the victim) has regarding the situation.
2. Probably the danger is not knowing the truth, and being afraid of something or someone you don't know what it has been through, or the reasons behind their actions and behavior. things never have one single side of the story, that is why it is important that we listen to as many point of view, and accept them and respect them, is we don't, we become ignorants.

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1) Frederick Clegg (Ferdinard, how Miranda knows him as), he is a clerk at the Town hall Annexe.

2) Very creepy, abnormal, thinks that people would fall in love if kept in a cage. Very scared, suspicious, attentive, perfectionist. has a very different point of view.

3) A very troubled past, rumours that that the dad died because the mother took him to drink, indirectly it could be said that the mother wanted the father dead, but it was me, his mother left, so he is not emotionally stable.

4) Miranda has an interesting personality, i think she is very intelligent. By what we have read until now, she is very attractive, and she was always surrounded by boys. In my opinion,  get a feeling that she doesn't care much about what people do to her.. for example she has a guy friend who was kissing  her every time, and she wasn't THAT scared when "Ferdinard" kidnapped Miranda. I have a sensation that she might have a plan, or she might be doing something which keeps her calm at most of the times. Or she also might be very emotionally or mentally unstable.

5) In a football pool

6) first he bought a house, refurbished it, removed the "historical chapel" and transformed it into a cellar. After several days of searching, he figures out where she lives. The day if th4e kidnap: it is a rainy day, he sees Miramnda coming out of the theater. He drives near her, waits outside the van and creates a story about accidentally running over a dog. As Miranda gets near the van to check what happens, CLegg uses his chloroform pad, and finds her.

7) short, passive-aggressive. Miranda tries to be nice, in order to confuse Clegg and certainly wants to get out of there.
ted talk:
1) The danger of the single story, this  red talk is related to the novel, because the point of view, or the side of the story is very important in both the video and the book. The lady in the video talks about how dangerous it is to only know one side of the story, we could be missing out on very serious points. For example, in this novel, until now (page 70), we only have seen the point of view of the kidnapper, which seems to be nice, he wants to know MIranda, he just wants to keep her safe. But we haven't seen what Miranda thinks, she must be feeling horrible, claustrophobic, worried that suddenly she has been kidnapped. So, by not knowing the other side of the story (I suppose, ahead we will) we think that the kidnapping is a good thing.
2) The danger of listening. Only one side of the story can be summarized in the following way: to know only one side of the story, makes a person selfish, biased, it is difficult for that person to understand other views, or the other side of the story itself. Assumptions, judgements are made because the person thinks that they know the entire story but no.

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1) This video is related to the novel because the video talks about the danger in only looking at one side of a story. Unlike in most books, here we see the story of Frederick, the kidnapper instead of  Miranda's story. According to what we talked about last class, later on in the book we will see a different point of view (probably Miranda's)
2) The danger of seeing/listening to only one side of the story is that you will have a very biased opinion. It is hard to look at something objectively if you only know one side of the story. It is important to know multiple sides of a story in order to be able to draw your own conclusions. It is also important in order to not have a prejudice against someone/ a group of people.

1) The narrator in this part of the novel is Frederick
2) Frederick is very persistent,

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TED TALK:
1. The video is related to the story as the novel is written in the first person, with the point of view of Frederick, the kidnapper. Usually, one is expected or brought into a story supporting the "good" side, yet this novel offers a new perspective, a background. Getting to know Frederick's past, and his mind process, a lack of emotion and love which leads to an unstable desire for one, we get a possible explanation for how it is that he became that way, and why he does what he does. This creates empathy for the kidnapper too, there is a moment of comprehension that everyone has their own faults and story to tell, and from there on can choose what he decides to do with that. Some might say it is preconceived, in a sense that he cannot escape his fate being born into that sort of social and emotional dynamic, and others may believe there is no excuse at all for what he did, no reasoning behind the action, just "wrong-doing".
2. The thing is, when taking Frederick as an example, this sympathy felt for the kidnapper can blur out the fact that there still is a moment of reasoning in which the character could have stopped his ways. The fact that we only get one side leads to a more biased story, personal experience and emotion getting in the way of facts, and what actually happened. We, as readers may get so involved in the story to a point that we unconsciously get frustrated if Frederick's plans go wrong, as we feel along with him, even though we would not wish harm upon Miranda.

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TED TALK :

1. This TED talk has to do with the story since in the book “The collector” we only get to see the point of view from Frederick which he can manipulate to make us think he is not a bad person. Which he actually does, but his actions and thoughts clearly show the opposite.

2. The danger of listening to only one story is that it confines your possibility to imagine beyond that information that was given. For example, believing one person without knowing the other person's point of view would be ignorant since you don't know the whole story, for all you know the only person you listened to may have avoided some details that are crucial. “One story” can be seen as something literal but many times in the past people were pre judged because they only knew one story from them, the German people were brainwashed by 🤬's (the H man) ideas, black people in the 20th century were still being mistreated because of their skin colour . Knowing only one story means that you are dogmatism. This can be dangerous because people use stereotypes and they are untrue because people can share a culture, religion or race but they are all different human beings.

THE COLLECTOR :

1. Frederick Clegg,  a young clerk at the Town Hall Annexe of his hometown in England.

2. Frederick  is very detailed when he analyses women and is head over heels for Miranda when he sees her. It seems he is very possessive and has a troubled mind. He is constantly clarifying that his intentions were always good but he is seen struggling with his own thoughts.

3. We learn he had a troubled childhood, which could have sub consequently shaped the man he is now. He lost his father when he was 2 in a car crash and his mother left after that with another man, leaving him with his aunt D and aunt Annie. He saw his aunt D as his own father, unfortunately he died when he was 15 in 1950. He had gone to the military.

4. We learn that Miranda is very intelligent, since she had won a scholarship. We also learn about their parents and how dysfunctional their marriage was.  We also knows she is very pretty from the descriptions that Frederick gives us and is not a vulgar woman, soft. We also learn that she is an art student who moved to London to study.

5. When he turned 21, he started to play the football pools (a low buy-in, high potential rewards betting system for soccer games). Giving him the 70.000 pounds.

6. On a rainy evening, he sees Miranda getting off the Tube and follows her in his van to a movie theater, where she watches a film until the rain subsides. When she exits, Clegg drives ahead of her to a secluded place that he knows she will pass on her way home. Once Miranda reaches him he asks her if she can help him, and pretends that he has been driving and has hit a dog, which is alive in his van. Once Miranda moves to the open back of the van, Clegg presses his pad of chloroform to her mouth and nose and then places her in the van.

7. When they are already in the house their dialogue seems to be much calmer than I had thought of. The dialogue between them is short and Miranda tries to convince her way out of the situation. Whilst Miranda talked, Frederick annalysed the way she said everyhting, without actually listening to her desire to leave.

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1) This video is related to the novel as it talks about how there are two sides to every story. In this novel, we get to see the point of view of a character who usually does not get a voice. In life and in literature we usually get to see the point of view of the person who has been kidnapped and not the kidnapper. This novel is giving us another perspective. We get to know Frederick Clegg, the kidnapper, as a person. This does no excuse his actions or justify them in any way, but it does allow us to understand him (to a certain extent). If we were only getting Miranda's side of the story, we would see Clegg as a sociopath and nothing more. Reading the novel from Clegg's point of view does not change this, but we can see what his intentions are, we can see his reasoning, we can see the situation in a much broader way. On the other hand, if we were only getting Clegg's point of view (which has been the case until now) we would also be getting only one side of the story, one version of the events. From what I understand, this novel will also give us Miranda's point of view, which is why the video relates to the novel.
2) The danger of knowing only one side of the story is that we become ignorant and prejudicial. We believe we know the whole story, so we make assumptions about entire groups of people (cultures, religions, races) based on this knowledge. The problem with this is that, as said, we don't know the whole story. It is not uncommon that we hear that a group of people from a certain culture or religion did something, so we assume that that entire culture or religion agrees with those actions and supports them. We make hasty generalizations about entire groups based on the little knowledge we have.