Caribbean Story Sweet, Sweet, Sweet – By Leyton E. Franklin
Caribbean Story Sweet, Sweet, Sweet is based on a ‘middle-class’ little boy living in a ‘big-house’ which has another house on the parcel of land. The lower sections of the houses were rented creating a ‘big-yard’ with tenants living in limited space. Looking down from the window to the street, he was exposed to a collection of images and verbal expressions displayed by various characters of different ethnic and social backgrounds.
His country people were referred to as low life, poor and bad elements for the ruling class. They were the working classes whose deplorable conduct his grandmother never wanted him to witness but he did. According to her the foul language and physical abuse of the lower class was derogatory and not conducive to her upper class society. Continue reading →
