How Does Jonathan Iwegbu Change Something Valuable

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Civil Peace
Valuables can consist of material goods and traits. Desite Jonathan Iwegbu losing many of his material assets, he still possesses an optimistic trait in Chinua Achebe’s “Civil Peace,” which allows him to look at challenges and improve them. He shows this many ways throughout the story. “Jonathan Iwegbu counted himself as extraordinary lucky” (389). This helped him improve these challenges and get over these obstacles because most people in his community had lost loved ones during the war, but thanks to his luck and him being courageous, his family had few losses, which gave him the opportunity to continue life as it was before he went to war. “Then he made the journey to Enugu and found another miracle waiting for him”(390). Jonathan

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