In the story, “Civil Peace”, Jonathan possesses a positive outlook on an arguably bleak life. He always had positive thinking going on, trying to make a new life after the war-torn world that he is living in. There were many scares and horror with the Civil War going on at this time period but that did not stop him from being constructive and still have a hopeful approach to life. Jonathan considered himself to be very lucky. For everything he does, he sees opportunity and fortune, he was never the one to complain. When coming back to Enugu, seeing his hometown was ruined he celebrates and gets right to work. “He had come out of the war with five inestimable blessings--his head, his wife Maria 's head and the heads of three out of their four