Dead Men’s Path (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Chinua Achebe
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1949
- Setting: An Igbo village in southeastern Nigeria
- Principal Characters: Michael Obi, Nancy Obi, The village priest
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Tradition, Superstition, 1940’s, Missions or missionaries, Schools or school life, Christianity, Ambition, Church schools, Nigeria or Nigerians
- Locales: Nigeria
The Story
Michael Obi's ambition is fulfilled when, at age twenty-six, he is appointed to whip into shape an unprogressive secondary school. Energetic, young, and idealistic as he is, Obi hopes to clean up the educational mission field and speed up its Christianizing mission. Already outspoken in his denigration of “the narrow views” and ways of “superannuated people in the teaching field,” he expects to make a good job of this grand opportunity and show people how a school should be run. He plans to institute modern methods and demand high standards of teaching, while...
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