In “Flight Patterns”, after 9/11 people had one story of “little, brown people”. All people believed the little brown people were ones to watch out for, even the little brown people themselves. The attacks on the World Trade Center erased every good story ever heard or told about brown people and this one horrific story replaced it, becoming the only story people knew. Adichie talks about how harmful this one sided story can be to our community and world we live in. Africans are perhaps the biggest victim of this “one story” theory, and Adichie knew this and was directly hurt by it, but she found herself judging Mexicans off of the one “illegal immigrant” story that she knew. Likewise, William found himself starring at little brown people on his flight, even though he knew everyone was also starring at him. As much as we hear the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover”, it would much better for us to judge a million books by their covers instead of only reading one.