Dead men’s path – Caught between cultures
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Dead men’s path – Caught between cultures
Zusammenfassung des Kapitels 'Dead Mens Path' aus caught between cultures
Für eine komplette Inhaltsangabe empfehlen wir euch die offizielle Lektürenhilfe.
Chinua Achebe, 1935
Setting
- Place: Nigeria
- Point of view: Omniscient narrator and dialogues
Characters
- Michael Obi
- young teacher, 26 years old, new director of the Ndume central school, ambitious, energetic, intolerant, is against the religious traditions of the natives, believes in western values, overrates himself, educated, dedicated, reckless
- Nancy Obi
- his young wife, supports her man, has a nice garden, admires her husband, modern woman, enegetic
- Priest Ani
- Supports old values and traditions, tries to explain Michael the signification of the path
- Natives
- Believe in their old tradition and religion, destroy the school and the garden, backward
Plot
- Exposition
- Dialogue between Nancy and Michael about the future
- Conflict / rising action
- Michael discovers the path and talks with a teacher about the situation
- Climax
- Priest explains Michael the meaning of the path, woman dies -> destruction of the school and the garden
- Resolution
- Inspector writes a very bad report ->his success is destroyed
Themes
- Confrontation of tradition with western attitudes
- rejection of the own tradition
- force of religion
- clash of cultures