arrator and her grandmother are not living near to each other by the usage of letters as a form of communication.The third story, “The Escape” ’s beginning sentence is “Who put de clock back, eh!” From this sentence, we know that it is a threat and it is spoken in dialect, as it is not proper English. The threat gives a hint to the story, that the following story will surely tell the reason to that threat and the reactions of the people being yelled at. The story will ofcourse be related to the word “escape”, and the threat perfectly fits into the title as something bad must have happened to cause that threatening situation, perhaps the escape might have caused that. It is quite evident for the sentence to reflect on the story following up, as the story is about the narrator’s mother’s escape to Jamaica, and to escape from the father’s forbidden permission to go to Jamaica because the threat might be after the mother’s disappearance. It is quite easy to think of what may follow on, through the first sentence. Then it is the language which is obvious too, as the language used in the opening sentence is non-standard just like the previous story, “Full Stop”. We can conclude that the language is some sort of a dialect from a particular West Indies country because the language used is commonly spoken by West Indians, particularly Patois, or Creole, the favourite dialects practised in these countries. So the following content of the story will be full of this dialect, and perhaps mixed with English but not in a perfect standard. Then we can come to an assumption of the characters’ nature by the beginning sentence, the threat “Who put de clock back, eh!” It is obviously spoken in a very harsh tone, perhaps quite loudly which we can say that character who says it is yelling or shouting with anger, as the clock is put back, thus the character will be...
