There is a definite relationship between history and literature. Keeping this in mind analyse A Grain of Wheat as a complex portrayal of history.

There is a definite relationship between history and literature. A Grain of Wheat is a new about the freedom movement. Through a series of flashbacks in the lives and gests of his top characters-- Mugo, Gikonyo, Mumbi, Kihika, Karanja and Thompson-- all of who reflect on it on the dusk of the Uhuru, Ngugi is suitable to weave, extremely skilfully, amulti-faced but a powefil picture of the struggle. Both through direct history and through There is a definite relationship between history and literature. reflections by hischaracters, Ngugi creates an atmosphere of expedients and fears, successes and defeats, commitment and backstabbings that were, as we've seen over, typical of the period of the struggle. A Grain of Wheat is the story of a group of people from a particular vill--Thabai-- who are about to celebrate theL.rhuru day which is only four days latterly. This still is also the occasion when each bone of them including the whiteD.O. Thompson, takes stock of his or her part in the freedom struggle, particularly during the exigency and the'Mau Mau' phase of the struggle. Mugo recalls his treason of Kihika, the fabulous immature revolutionary who was hanged. Gikonyo recalls his concession of the pledge during interrogation in the detention camp. Mumbi recalls the circumstances under. ihich she was forced to submit herself to Karanja, the vill Chief and a collaborator of the social administration. Karanja recalls his subservience to theD.O., while Thompson and his woman recall their part as a part of the white colonizer adminstration that was trying iis hcst to'civilise'the Africans. There is a definite relationship between history and literature.

There is a definite relationship between history and literature.

 A Grain of Wheat-hiugo Recalls The new opens with Mugo, a occupant of Thabai vill in Kamanduru quarter and a servicewoman who had suffered considerably at the hands of the government during the fieedom struggle, getting up beforehand in the morning for going to cultivate his shamba. There is a definite relationship between history and literature.Our first print of him is that he's a strange old man who appears to be seeing phantoms where there are none; one who, like Hester Pryne in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, seems to be guarding commodity within him which he feels every one is out to seek and unravel on this cataclysmal day. Among the first persons he meets is Githua, a fellow victim of the state violence who hadn't only lost a leg in it but who seems to have gone soft in the head too"I tell you before the Exigency, I was like you before the white man did this to me with pellets, I could work with both hands." (A Grain of Wheatp. 4) As we formerly know from the accounts of Kariuki, Njarna, General China and Bildad Kaggia, the story of Githua is the story of thousands who were impaired during the struggle and Githua's reflections put Mugo in a mood for ignoring on the brutality of the white man, the maximum senseless killings and tortures that they indulged in. Passing by the shack of an old woman, Mugo recalls how her only son Gitogo, who was both deaf and dumb, was killed by the government colors during one of their ralds on the vill People were being collected into the city forecourt, the request place, for webbing. Githogo ran to a shop, jumped over the counter and nearly fell into the shopkeeper whom he plant covering amongst the empty bags...'Halt!'the whiteman cried. There is a definite relationship between history and literature. Githogo continued running. Commodity hit him at the reverse. He raised his arms in the air. He fell on his stomach Supposedly the pellet had touched his heart. The dogface left his place. Another Mau Mau terrorist had been shot dead. (A Gram of Wheatp. 6) The last judgment-- Another Mau Mnu termrist had been shot dead-- seems to' touch'the compendiums with the same force as the pellet that had killed Gitogo. With this one judgment Ngugi had nailed all those falsehoods which talked of'hlau Mau'terrorists bcing killed in' hassles'with the colors. Back from the Shamba, Mugo is visited on behalf of the party by a group of vill elders Warui, Wambui and Gikonyo, who There is a definite relationship between history and literature.want him to lead the fests for the Uhuru by making the main speech of the day. Sitting with them and agitating the history of the country, Mugo recalled--"... the day the whiteman came to the countn. clinging the book of God in both hands. a magic substantiation that whiteman was a runner from the Lord. His lingo was carpeted with sugar his modesty?; as touching." There is a definite relationship between history and literature.Gradationally, hotvever. commodity additional happed which surprised the people around Soon the people saw thc whiteman had gradually acquired more land to meet the growing requirements of his position. He'd formerly pulled the grassthatched shack and erected a more endless structure. Elders of the land protested. They looked beyond the laughing face of the whiteman and suddenly saw a long line of other red nonnatives nho carried not the Bible. but the brand. (A Grnln of Wheatp. 14) There couldn't have been a more precise yet more forthright depiction of that part of Kenyan histoq There is a definite relationship between history and literature. towards the end of the nincteenth century when the British launched a two-rounded attack by the church and the dogface to colonise Kenya. It was also, Mugo recalls, that Harry Thuku had appeared on the scene telling then1 of the disgruntlement ivith taxation, forced labour on white settler's land and of extracting of thousands as a result of resettlement schemes for white dogfaces from abroad. It nas after he'd formed a part!. and had bzen a rested thai the first kick rail? took place It was 1923, Warui, another elder of the vlllage who was in the crowd, vividl! recalls On the fourth day they marched fonvard singing. The police who awaited for them with ordnance fised with bayonets, opened fire. Three men raised their arms in the air. It's said that as they fell down they gripped soil in their fisls. Another blitz scattered the crowd. A man and a woman fell. their blood spurted out. People ran in all directions. Within a many seconds the big crowd had dispersed; nothing remained but fifteen crooked watchers on the ground. outside the State house. There is a definite relationship between history and literature.