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A doomed Mens Path is a short story closely a bright crazy thatched roofer named obi, who was just promoted to lord at a failing aim. Both he and his married woman Nancy, have great plans to f totally out the tutor and modernisticize it. obeahs everywhere ambitious attempt to modernize the school allows him to close dour an ancestral footpath that intersects with the school grounds. Obi, who does non appreciate the rare teachings and believe that they are quite silly to say the to the lowest degree does not hesitate to do this even though he was forewarned by the settlement priest, because he ignores the people of the colonization and does not respect their customs, Obi result find that his actions will contribute about an undesirable fate. brain dead Mans Path illustrates the importance of respecting tradition that may seem former(a) fashion and not forgetting the determine and wisdom of the past in the search of a bare-ass future.\nTradition is the main free radical of this story. Obis energy fue take by a sense of plume in his abilities and for his wife Nancy who was infected by his passion  for his modern methods (270), was more concerned with her companionable standings; they show no deliberate to the villagers tradition. Upon discovering the ancestral footpath that led from the village shrine to their sepulcher site, Obis first concern were not for the traditions of the people he would teach but for the aesthetics of the school according to his own and Nancys ideals. It was actions such(prenominal) as this that pushed aboriginals in Australia to represent in seclusion in their own country. Even afterward being confronted by the village priest who explains to him the importance of the path, Obi reacts without respect because these were the exact beliefs that his school would eradicate. This very blatant, but well-meant disregard for the beliefs of the villagers backfires when a village womans untimely death is attribute d to the unavailability of the path. The morning of inspection Obi wakes up to find that all his work had bee...