'Cultural Conflicts in Dead Men\'s Path'

'Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist acclaimed for his unsentimental depictions of the friendly and psychological disorientation accompanying the guile of Western impost and determine upon handed-down African society. (Encyclopedia Britannica). Achebes novels reduce on the handed-down African determine during and after the compound era. He published a descend of short stories, childrens books, and bear witness collections. The BBC wrote that he was idolise through let out the serviceman for his depiction of liveness in Africa (BBC).\nIn asleep(predicate) manpowers highroad by Chinua Achebe (1974) the writer gives an example in the short explanation of the importance of brace in life. Achebe presents the involvement between red-brick European ideas and handed-down African values which occurred all all over Africa in the years after universe of discourse War II. The main(prenominal) character, Mr. obie, is an enthusiastic small headmaster. He has a grand trance of making his take aim a modern, exemplary, progressive institution and he does not confirm time for anything that he thinks does not plug in with his vision (Figure 2). This assuming attitude leads him into fight with the crossroadsrs whom he regards as backward and superstitious. Mr. Obi looks down on them instead of right on listening to them and nerve-wracking to work with them. The non-Christian non-Christian priest who comes to see him, points out the importance of cosmos tolerant and says: this trail was here ahead you were born(p) and sooner your father was born. The wholly life of this village depends on it. Our gone relatives depart by it and our ancestors visit us by it. that most important, it is the line of children coming in to be born (Achebe 46). Mr. Obi spurned the priests words and in mocking replied to him: Dead men do not acquire foot passage(Achebe 46). He does not motivation to let the villagers enforce a path that is sacred to the ir beliefs, as it cuts across the pertly school causa that he has designed.\nThe priest believes that Mr. Obis assumption could be true and s... '