Read the excerpt from "The Danger of Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Now, I loved those American and British books I read. They stirred my imagination. They opened up new worlds for me. But the unintended consequence was that I did not know that people like me could exist in literature. So what the discovery of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a single story of what books are.

How does the phrase "stirred my imagination” affect the meaning of the speech?

It highlights the amount of time Adichie spent reading.
It describes Adichie’s confusion over the books she read in her childhood.
It shows Adichie’s preference for specific books.
It emphasizes the way literature influenced Adichie when she was younger.