Sunday, January 15, 2012

Dead Mans Path (P.O.V. Micheal Obi)

Wow my life is going great I'm young, married, and i have my dream job of being a headmaster of a school. everyone looks up to me and I can look down to everyone and they would have to respect me because i am Micheal Obi.
“We shall make a good job of it, shan’t we?”
“We shall do our best,”
"We shall have such beautiful gardens and everything will be just modern and delightful…”
“All our colleagues are young and unmarried,”
“Which is a good thing,”
"Why?"
“A penny for your thoughts, Mike,”
 “I was thinking what a grand opportunity we’ve got at last to show these people how a school should be run.”
Ahhhh I did a good job so did Nancy with the gardens i like the bushes the flowers and the old lady walking on then wait that intolerable.
“It amazes me,that you people allowed the villagers to make use of this footpath. It is simply incredible.”
“The path, appears to be very important to them. Although it is hardly used, it connects the village shrine with their place of burial.”
“And what has that got to do with the school?”
 “Well, I don’t know, But I remember there was a big row some time ago when we attempted to close it.”
“That was some time ago. But it will not be used now, what will the Government Education Officer think of this when he comes to inspect the school next week? The villagers might, for all I know, decide to use the schoolroom for a pagan ritual during the inspection.”
Okay that's done now lets see them get bast my sticks and barbed wire.

Three days late after Micheal was summoned by the town priest to talk about the path.

“I have heard, that our ancestral footpath has recently been closed…”
“Yes,We cannot allow people to make a highway of our school compound.”

“Look, here, my son, this path was here before you were born and before your father was born. The whole life of this village depends on it. Our dead relatives depart by it and our ancestors visit us by it. But most important, it is the path of children coming in to be born…”
“The whole purpose of our school, is to eradicate just such beliefs as that. Dead men do not require footpaths. The whole idea is just fantastic. Our duty is to teach your children to laugh at such ideas.”

“What you say may be true, but we follow the practices of our fathers. If you reopen the path we shall have nothing to quarrel about. What I always say is: let the hawk perch and let the eagle perch.”
“I am sorry, But the school compound cannot be a thoroughfare. It is against our regulations. I would suggest your constructing another path, skirting our premises. We can even get our boys to help in building it. I don’t suppose the ancestors will find the little detour too burdensome.”
“I have no more words to say,”

Two days later a woman in the village died from child birth

Oh no every thing is ruined everything is destroyed and the supervisor is coming.
“tribal-war situation developing between the school and the village, arising in part from the misguided zeal of the new headmaster.”

what i think about Micheal Obi is that he is to arrogant to listen other peoples beliefs and make do with what has been there long before he was there and is appreciated and cherished by everyone and he suffered from it by getting fired

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