A Grain of Wheat
What are the motifs in A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o?
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One major motif in the text is that of rain. It is raining or drizzling throughout most of the text, and the rain itself can represent both good..... a sense of purification, or evil.... harm and subversion.
A Grain of Wheat