of writing letters, without commas or full stops, this can be the so called “selling point” of the story to attract readers to read the story, and also to reflect on the grandmother’s inability to write proper letter formats.Then we can also presume that the story is about the relationship between the narrator and her grandmother as they write letters to each other, which could mean that both of them have a close relationship with each other. Because writing letters is a form of communication, which we can also conclude that the narrator and her grandmother are living very far from each other. Perhaps, the technology at that time is not very advanced, and to really calculate the cost of phone calls and writing letters, the latter one is ofcourse the most cheapest and common way of communication between two people living far from each other. From here, we can see that the characters might not be wealthy, as making phone calls is definitely the most efficient way of communication, but they do not use it. Maybe the narrator and the grandmother are people who focus on sincerity, thus writing letters is a more of a sentimental way, which may reflects that both characters are quite sentimental people. The language used in the first sentence is non-standard, which means that some parts of the story are of non-standard English or without punctuations, especially the letters wrote by the grandmother. The interchange of letters between the two characters is in a chatty style, and it can be interpreted from the sentence as the first sentence is without punctuations, and it is likely that the narrator is like chatting with her grandmother in the letters. But we cannot assume that the language used in the story is partly Jamaican and religious especially the grandmother’s letters, as it is not quite obvious in the first sentence, and it is not mentioned that the grandmother is a Jamaican, but we can assume that both of the n...
