Caribbean Story Sweet, Sweet, Sweet: Me Brain Open Up and Nuff Memory Cum Out

Description

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. She was also the owner and landlord of the houses situated at a busy intersection in the city. Explosions occurred also in the 'big-yard; daily mostly at the 'water-pipe' in the yard. Some of the tenants that he describes are: Mr. Roberson operated a cake-shop, a woman miser and wife abuser. Mr. Smith who lived with Miss. Marie that controlled him. The tailors who were involved in relationships with different women. Mrs. Samuels who had six children, living in a one-bedroom room. Doggy the boxer who was feared by men in the street and a con artist. Mohammed, East Indian Muslin married to a Portuguese woman and was always cussing. The goldsmith whose sons choke and robbed people. The man who thought no woman could catch him. The woman who was abused by her man.