Dead Men\'s Path by

A Dead Mens trail is a short romance about a brilliantly enthusiastic teacher named obeah, who was sound promoted to headmaster at a failing school. Both he and his wife Nancy, have huge plans to overhaul the school and build up it. Obis over ambitious get to modernize the school allows him to tightly fitting off an ancestral pathway that intersects with the school grounds. Obi, who does not lever the old teachings and believe that they argon rather silly to put forward the least does not swerve to do this even though he was forewarned by the resolution priest, because he ignores the people of the colony and does not respect their tradition, Obi allow discern that his actions will bring about an unsuitable fate. Dead Mans Path illustrates the immenseness of respecting tradition that may bet old fashion and not forgetting the values and wisdom of the past in the search of a new future.\nTradition is the primary(prenominal) theme of this story. Obis energy furnis h by a nose out of pride in his abilities and for his wife Nancy who was infected by his rut  for his modern methods (270), was more have-to doe with with her social standings; they show no regard to the villagers tradition. Upon discovering the ancestral nerve tract that led from the village saint to their burial site, Obis first busy were not for the traditions of the people he would teach just for the aesthetics of the school according to his sustain and Nancys ideals. It was actions such as this that pushed aboriginals in Australia to live in retirement in their own country. crimson after being confronted by the village priest who explains to him the impressiveness of the path, Obi reacts without respect because these were the consume beliefs that his school would eradicate. This very blatant, but well-intentioned disregard for the beliefs of the villagers backfires when a village womans untimely last is attributed to the inaccessibility of the path. The morning o f oversight Obi wakes up to find that all his work had bee...