The Voter and Dead Men\'s Path

Chinua Achebes The Voter, and deathlike Mens Path, ar two beautiful stories, where the author embroidered the conflicts between the sophisticated and the tralatitious culture of the society. ceiling and Michael obeah are the two main(prenominal) characters of the stories. Michael seems to follow the modern society. On the other hand, ceiling consider both(prenominal) the modern and the handed-down society. Although thither are nice similarities in the characters of Roof and Michael Obi, there are also distinctions, which hold each person to foot on his own, and face the difficulty of the modern and the traditional whimsey in a disparate way. By rejecting the traditional regard as or conforming the average of both the traditional and modern value, Roof and Obi map out their individuality.\nBoth Michael Obi and Roof face the new(a) challenges of a changing society, with enthusiasm. Michael Obi, who is in his twenties, is the groundbreaker of the modern society. He h as heating for modern methods (71). His dream came rightful(a) much earlier than he expected. He gets a billet as headmaster of Ndume telephone exchange School because the Mission governance decided to send a young and brisk mankind (70), to lead it. As concisely as he gets the job, he starts making plans about the works prosperity. He decides to express a high regular of teaching. He also plans to relieve oneself the school better base by beautifying it (72). He is take a shit to dedicate all his age and energy to the school which manifests his enthusiasm. Likewise, Roof is another example of a young and restless person. even so though he has skills for bike repairing, he accepts a new challenge as an resource campaigner (14). Instead of having fear for a new job, he is optimistic about it. agree to the villagers point of view, he became, a real expert in election campaigning at all levels- village, local brass or national (14). An energetic and enthusiastic men tality helps both Obi and Roof to sustain up their good wor...