Your Character Can Make You or Break You
             Your personal character whether inherited or your own personal design can be what brings you into your "world," your friends, relationships, and work are all brought to you by the character which flows from you into the sight of others.
             We will be examining the use of characterization in the stories "Dead Man's Path" by Chinua Achebe what happens because of the character makeup of the people in these stories.
             In "Dead Man's Path" our main character is a young married man, eager to start a new job.
             "Michael Obi's hopes were fulfilled much earlier than he had expected. He was appointed headmaster of Ndume Central School in January 1949. It had always been an unprogressive school, so the Mission authorities decided to send a young and energetic man to run it"
             By the use of words like "young and energetic" the writer is allowing us to see that this character has probably no experience because of being young and energetic Achebe makes us think that he will not think things through as well as he should before making decisions. The author also makes us wonder why the school has been unprogressive in the past.
             Why did the Mission authorities choose Michael? What was in his character that set him apart from the other applicants for Headmaster?
             "Obi accepted this responsibility with enthusiasm. He had many wonderful ideas and this was an opportunity to put them into practice. He had had sound secondary school education which designated him a 'pivotal teacher' in the official records and set him apart from the other headmasters in the mission field"( Achebe 367).
             Achebe shows that "Obi" may be a "pivotal teacher" and be enthusiastic about his new job but that does not mean that he has any common sense or the capability of making decisions, just that he is trained to teac...