Cultural Conflicts in Dead Men\'s Path

Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist acclaimed for his tough depictions of the social and psychological freak out accompanying the imposition of western customs and determine upon tralatitious African society. (Encyclopedia Britannica). Achebes novels focus on the traditional African value during and after the colonial era. He published a frame of short stories, childrens books, and essay collections. The BBC wrote that he was revered throughout the piece for his depiction of life in Africa (BBC).\nIn Dead manpowers Path by Chinua Achebe (1974) the writer gives an example in the short story of the immenseness of balance in life. Achebe presents the negate between modern European ideas and traditional African values which occurred all over Africa in the years after cosmos War II. The main character, Mr. Obie, is an evangelistic young headmaster. He has a grand imaging of qualification his schooltime a modern, exemplary, advancing institution and he does non have time f or anything that he thinks does not connect with his vision (Figure 2). This presumptuous attitude leads him into contravene with the villagers whom he regards as reverse and superstitious. Mr. Obi looks down on them instead of properly audience to them and trying to work with them. The priest who comes to see him, points out the wideness of being tolerant and says: this form was here before you were born(p) and before your father was born. The upstanding life of this village depends on it. Our dead relatives depart by it and our ancestors visit us by it. But most important, it is the passage of children coming in to be born (Achebe 46). Mr. Obi spurned the priests words and in derisive replied to him: Dead men do not require footpath(Achebe 46). He does not ask to let the villagers use a path that is sacred to their beliefs, as it cuts across the new school grounds that he has designed.\nThe priest believes that Mr. Obis impudence could be true and s...