Two Stubborn People

Author's Note: This is a point of view piece about the story Dead Men's Path.

When two people fight, they both believe that they are right and the other is wrong. That's what war is about, every single conflict ever had to do with two people, each too stubborn to back down. That is exactly what happened in the short story Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe. The new headmaster had sealed off one path, and when somebody died, the town chief believed that the fence and sign were evil. So he took them down, both the headmaster and the chief thought he was right. The headmaster wanted to change the school and stop old traditions and start new ones, and the chief believed the blockade was evil because of his religious beliefs. The headmaster refused to take the blockade down, so the chief tore it down and destroyed parts of the school.