Responce for Dead Man's Path

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Authors note: This is a response to Dead Man’s Path for goals for reading.

Obi is a character that didn’t change, but as the story goes on you start to think different of him. When the book starts out he seems very innocent. The development of the story ties in a major theme of the story which is loss of innocence.


At the beginning of the short story they introduce Obi as a hard working nice man that is assigned a school that he is to improve. The story goes on about how he is educated and how the school hasn’t been making any progress, and about how Obi can fix that.


Near the middle we start to see a different side of Obi he starts to think about all the recognition he’s going to receive and he is thinking all about himself and not the children out the village and the school which he is to improve. He starts to come off as a very inconsiderate.


When the story starts to wrap up Obi does something very inconsiderate. He cuts of a very religious path which is said to be the path souls of dead men walk. The priest comes to talk to Obi and tells him to re-open the path so the souls can pass on. He refuses and the path is torn up. This shows that the society is also now against him.