In the story “The Return” by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the detainee feel distant and passionate about the people and villages they left behind. The prisoners of the concentration camp want to get back to their old life with their familiar villages and loved ones, including Kamau. In the story the narrator announces, “The others had been like him. They had talked of nothing but their homes” (Thiong’o 137). The detainees are constantly reminded of their old village, and they miss them and are feeling concealed from them being in a concentration camp so far away from them. Also in the story Njoroge confesses, “‘It is my wife. I left her expecting a baby. I have no idea what has happened to her’” (Thiong’o 137). Njoroge is worried about what his family
