Blind Ambition

ENG 102
Short Story Analysis
10/12/11
Blind Ambition
In the short story Dead Mens Path by Chinua Achebe, Micheal Obi and his wife Nancy Obi are a real hard makeing couple . Micheal just became a lord at Ndume Central School, a very unprogessive aim. The Obis obligate many a(prenominal) new ideas to change the school completely. The Obis have a pot of ambition to take on a school with so many problems, although ambition can be good, too much ambition can be bad. Micheal inadequacys to change almost everything in spite of appearance and outside of the school, he wants to dispatch everything modern and delightful, Nancy wants to change the gardens to make them beautiful and stand out, and Micheal wants to destroy the most sacred racecourse to the villagers. The Obis blind ambition makes it impossible for good constructive work to be done.
Micheal is a very young headmaster, the Obis are a very idealistic couple. The Obis feel they need to improve the school drasticly, to prove that Micheal is worthy for the job. The School seems to have older methods except the Obis have a passion for modern methods. Micheal says Ndume School is regressive in every sense of the word(162) and tries his hardest to change that completely.



Micheal is jocund to hear All our colleagues are young and unmarried,(161) he tells Nancy they leave alone give all their time and energy to the school(161) up to now Nancy is not pleased to hear this news. Nancy had already imagined herself as the respect wife of the young headmaster, the queen of the school (161) she wanted everyone to realise who she is and look up to her, Nancy was a bit of a showoff. The Obis have their ideas and dont want anything to ruin that, even their consume self deconstruction.
Nancy feels the need to be in charge of the gardens and how they were planted. onward the Obis even got to the school Nancy thought she was better then everyone else, she didnt care what anyone thought, and she came off as rude and self-centered to the villagers. Nancy aimed...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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