Dead+Men's+Path

=**Wiki Part One**=

//Dead Men's Path//
//By: Chinua Achebe//

A young and ambitious man named Michael Obi gets promoted to be a head master of a secondary school in Nigeria. He wants to focus on standardizing and reforming this school into a proper education system. Obi wishes to implement modern methods and to cast out narrow and traditional views. Accompanied with his wife, Nancy, she is looking forward to being by his side and reshaping the schools garden. One night while obi was making plans for the school, he notices a person walking through a path that cut through the garden. Obi took great offense to this trespassing and closed the pathway with a fence of barbed wires. Afterwards, the village priest came to the school to notify him of the pathway and its' origins. The priest went on to say that this pathway connects the village's shrine and cemetery, that it was the link to their dead ancestors and the yet unborn. Obi negates the information, rudely telling the priest that that is exactly the belief he wishes to diminish by being headmaster of the school. The priest wanted to hear no more and warned him of consequences that will happen because of his decision. Two days after this incident, Obi found the garden his wife, Nancy, has been looking after destroyed and the fence trampled over. Also the news of a miscarriage happened in the local village and with these downfalls, Obi was dismissed as headmaster. The topics for Dead Men's Path are of the following: - Respect - Traditional views - Acceptance - Arrogance - Consequence Dead Men's Path is a well flowing, easy to read short story that teaches the importance of respecting old tradition. The idea and conflict that this story brings to light is the indifference between the young and old, which is extremely relatable in today's society. The only trouble about this story is that it could have been longer to entail better description about the characters and the setting they are placed in. Intriguingly enough, the story starts out very positive and enthusiastic, but the well intended headmaster eventually ended up getting fired. It finishes in a monotone and almost depressive like state, the author leaves the reader with either two ideas, first is that old traditional views can bring the downfall of new and progressive ideals, and second is that the young and new views are being overlooked with out the acknowledgment of the old and traditional views. I would recommend this short story to my peers due to the seriousness of this up and coming conflict in today's society. Achebe, Chinua."Dead Men's Path." // Literature and the Writing Process. // Ed. Elizabeth McMahon et. al. 10th Ed. Boston: Pearson, 2014. 365-378. Print.
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= Wiki Part Two =