wake rasta
... the Caribbean because in all actuality in all of their writings it shows these traditions. Including in the famous and most popular miss Louise Bennett’s writing you see British traditions. The African traditions I see in this short story are first the broken English. I know this is kind of a stereotype but Africans really do not speak English real well or do they understand the complexity of verbs, nouns, and linking verbs and part of that is America’s way. However they do not speak it really that well. So in the story I read a lot of broken sentences. Like on page 91 the first page of the story the cadet says, “What you mean?” Or another time on page 93 when Sting says “What you doing in the water?” This is an example of the English I’m talking about. It is all broken and construed. I’m not sure but I think that a bosun has to African decent by looking at the name and spelling, that of which being a petty officer on a ship. Another I think is the word ganja. I hate to say it or be incorrect but most of the drugs come from Africa or from the Caribbean. Part of that is not all them however. But most of those drugs are manufactured in the islands and is shipped all over the world. Another is the way the story is set up. Sometimes in African stories you really do not get to know the main character as in others stories. You just get the story and a lesson to go along with the narrative. As for the English traditions present there are a lot. Because of that I think that English had a tremendous effect on the Caribbean. First I have to start with the military. That reason he was called “cadet.” People in the Caribbean really didn’t have an establish ranking system and the English gave America as well as those in the Caribbean a way to show rank and so forth. Another is when the cadet says, “I was just a country boy from a poor Christian family.” I really do not think that the natives or others in the Caribbean knew what the Christian religion was. They had to be introduced to it and so eventually it showe...