1. Chinua Achebe's "Dead Man's Path" is a story about the importance of keeping traditions alive.
1. Traditions keep us linked with our past
1. ""The Path" said the teacher apologetically, "appears to be very important to them. Although its is hardly used, it connects the village shrine with their place of burial"".(270)2. " Our dead relatives depart by it and our ancestors visit us by it".(270)
2. Keeping traditions alive unifies a village.
1. "This path was here before you were born and before your father was born the whole life of this village depends on it".(270)
2. The village then called on a diviner to find favor with the ancestors,
3. One mans goal changes a village.
1. Mr. Obi's goal to modernize the school turned into the downfall of the school and the village.
2. "Tribal-war situation developing between the school and the village, arising in part from the misguided zeal of the new headmaster".(271)
A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor
1. Good versus evil can be clearly seen in a Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor.
1.One wrong doing can bring ones evil side out.
1. Accused of murdering his father, The Misfit was sent to the penitentiary.
2. "I found out the crime don't matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it".(266)
2. Fix your mistake before its too late.
1. When the grandmother insists on going to see the old house, she remembers it is in Tennessee and not Georgia and doesn't tell anyone.
2. "We've had an ACCIDENT"(263)
3. When somoene turns evil they have no care in the world.
1. The Misfit has no feelings towards murdering the family.
2. "Take her off and rhrow her where you thown the others".(268)
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