Dead Men\'s Path by

A Dead Mens raceway is a short layer about a intelligent enthusiastic teacher named obi, who was secure promoted to headmaster at a failing school. Both he and his wife Nancy, have prominent plans to overhaul the school and explicate it. Obis over ambitious hear to modernize the school allows him to smashed off an ancestral nerve tract that intersects with the school grounds. Obi, who does non rate the old teachings and believe that they argon rather silly to word the least does not quiver to do this even though he was forewarned by the colonisation priest, because he ignores the people of the colony and does not respect their tradition, Obi lead puzzle that his actions will bring about an unsuitable fate. Dead Mans Path illustrates the impressiveness of respecting tradition that may seem old fashion and not forgetting the values and wisdom of the bygone in the search of a new future.\nTradition is the primary(prenominal) theme of this story. Obis energy fuel by a star of pride in his abilities and for his wife Nancy who was infected by his warmness  for his modern methods (270), was more interested with her social standings; they show no regard to the villagers tradition. Upon discovering the ancestral nerve pathway that led from the village close in to their burial site, Obis first line were not for the traditions of the people he would teach only for the aesthetics of the school according to his knowledge and Nancys ideals. It was actions such as this that pushed aboriginals in Australia to live in retirement in their own country. unconstipated after being confronted by the village priest who explains to him the impressiveness of the path, Obi reacts without respect because these were the get hold of 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 remnant is attributed to the inaccessibility of the path. T he morning of reappraisal Obi wakes up to find that all his work had bee...