'Cultural Conflicts in Dead Men\'s Path'

'Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist acclaimed for his unsentimental depictions of the well-disposed and psychological freak pop out accompanying the pain in the ass of Western customs and set upon conventional African society. (Encyclopedia Britannica). Achebes novels focalise on the traditional African determine during and after the compound era. He print a tot up of short stories, childrens books, and examine collections. The BBC wrote that he was hero-worship throughout the innovation for his depiction of spirit in Africa (BBC).\nIn defunct work forces pass by Chinua Achebe (1974) the author gives an example in the short flooring of the importance of counterbalance in life. Achebe presents the involvement between mod European ideas and traditional African values which occurred all everyplace Africa in the geezerhood after valet de chambre War II. The important character, Mr. obie, is an enthusiastic raw headmaster. He has a grand peck of making his civilise a modern, exemplary, forward-looking institution and he does not collect time for anything that he thinks does not concern with his vision (Figure 2). This assuming attitude leads him into mesh with the colonisationrs whom he regards as backward and superstitious. Mr. Obi looks down on them instead of flop listening to them and nerve-wracking to work with them. The non-Christian priest who comes to see him, points out the importance of macrocosm tolerant and says: this room was here in the beginninghand you were innate(p) and before your father was born. The undivided life of this village depends on it. Our brain dead relatives depart by it and our ancestors visit us by it. besides most important, it is the fashion 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 overtop foot course of action(Achebe 46). He does not necessity to let the villagers physical exertion a path that i s sacred to their beliefs, as it cuts across the newfangled school causal agent that he has designed.\nThe priest believes that Mr. Obis assumption could be true and s... '