The Return
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- The Last days of Kamau Being in detention camp
- The first day of being free and trying to connect with others for remembrance. As the women talked among each other Kamau started thinking about what happen in detention camp
- Why must she not finish her sentence. “Perhaps I am no longer one of them!"
- “Oh, isit you, Kamau? We thought you—
- “It is my wife. I left her expecting a baby. I have no idea what hashappened to her.”
- Kamau flashback about the detention camp
- “What’s wrong, man? What’s the matter with you."
- For me, I left my woman with a baby.She had just been delivered. We were all happy. But on the same day,I was arrested..."
- Kamau finally makes it back home where his family were. Kamau father was sitting in chair trembling and a look of fear in his eyes arose. His mother came, and his brothers too. They crowded around him. His aged mother clung to him and sobbed hard.
- “Father! father, don’t you remember me?"
- “I knew my son would come. I knew he was not dead.”
- “You—you gave my own away?” he whispered.
- Kamau left to go to the river After feeling betrayed by his father and mother.
- “Why, who told you I was dead?”
- I wonder where Muthoni is
- “She was a good daughter to us. She waited for you and patiently bore all the ills of the land. Then Karanja came and said that you were dead. Your father believed him. She believed him too and keened for a month. Karanja constantly paid us visits. He was of your Rika, you know. Then she got a child. We could have kept her. But where is the land? Where is the food? Ever since land consolidation, our last security was taken away. We let Karanja go with her. Other women have done worse—gone to town. Only the infirm and the old have been left here.”
- “Muthoni went away.”
- “That Karanja, son of Njogu.”
- “Listen, child, child . . .”
- By the time Kamau made it to the river it was night time s. In the forest the crickets and other insects kept up an incessant buzz. And above, the moon shone bright. He tried to remove his coat, and the small bundle he had held onto so firmly fell. It rolled down the bank and before Kamau knew what was happening, it was floating swiftly down the river. For a time he was shocked and wanted to retrieve it. What would he show his Oh, had he forgotten so soon? His wife had gone. And the little things that had so strangely reminded him of her and that he had guarded all those years, had gone! He did not know why, but somehow he felt relieved. Thoughts of drowning himself dispersed. He began to put on his coat. murmuring to himself. The end
- “Why should she have waited forme? Why should all the changes have waited for my return?”
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