Who is The Old Woman from A Grain of Wheat and what is their importance? A_Grain_of_Wheat English & Literature The Old Woman | A Grain of Wheat

An old woman lives alone in a hut. She has stopped talking, since her deaf and dumb son was shot because he could not hear an order to halt from a soldier. Mugo feels a strange kinship with the old woman, and when she sees him, she thinks Mugo is her son, come back to take her from life. The Old Woman dies after Mugo comes to hide in her hut, after his confession that he betrayed Kihika.