Mean Man, or the Priest?

Authors note: This is a point of view piece for 'Dead Men's Path'.

Michael Obi is a young man, not aware of other people’s feelings. He doesn’t care about other people’s beliefs, only his. One day when he was working at his school and he realized the villagers would take a path right next to the school building, and Obi didn’t like that because he thought they were scary and would get him in trouble. Being the person that he is, he shut down the path and made it so the villagers couldn’t walk down it. This was a horrible thing because the people did all their weird rituals there. After that, many bad things happened.


Michael Obi wasn’t a very kind guy. He didn’t care much about anything, and hated the idea of the villagers being close to the school. On the other hand, the villagers really cared about it. It was part of their life, and they grew to love it. They would talk to their ancestors there and even give birth there! Obviously it meant something to them! This story might have been better if the main character was the Priest. He went though much more than Michael and it would be more interesting than just a principal being freaked out by weird people. Instead you would learn all the weird things they do in their village. Which, in my perspective, would be a lot better and have more of a point to it.