Point of View

What is this? Where did it come from? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? The villagers did in the story Dead Man’s Path when their ancient path to visit their loved ones who have passed on has been dissevered. By a man who always thinks he is doing the right thing. Even when he is wrong he can’t see it, and for that he is punished.

This is told from the point of view from the priest. The priest one day gets some complaints that their path is closed. He feels dread for he knows this path very well. So the priest thinks it is probably the head master of the school for the path run through the school yard so I will have to talk to him. Later at the school with the priest and the head master, please sir you have to take down the fence the path has been there for century’s no. the headmaster said your spirits won’t mind a little detour around the school. Sir I must insist, no said the head master. The next day the headmaster went to the school he so hardly worked to build and it was a disaster. For his flowers were torn out of the ground, and a whole part of the school was clasped. It was the villagers they weren’t happy and now neither was the headmaster the priest knew this would happen and tried to help but he wouldn’t listen. Now when the inspector came to see the school he looked away with a grin and gave a poor rating. And with the poor rating he never got to have a nice school.

The consequences, they are sieve but it could of all been avoided if he listened to the priest. But the headmaster was too arrogant to see past his own ways. To be educated does not make you better than someone else maybe they didn’t want a school they have make it that far without it. So the story proves that change is not always the solution, so if it’s not broken don’t fix it.