“One grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about London, with a fog sleeping restlessly over the city and the lights showing in the blur as if it was not London at all but some strange place on another planet, I hopped on the 46 bus at the corner of Chepstow road and Westbourne grove to go to meet a fella who was coming from Trinidad on the boat train.”

 

Through the use of non-standard eniglish both the reader and the character have a similar feeling of homesickness. This can be see when the writer uses non-standard English, different tenses and its in 3rd person. Non-standard English is show here in this quote: “But he get a letter From a friend in Trinidad who say This fella me is coming by the SS Hildebrand”. This is shown by how he’s mentioning getting a letter from a friend but can’t pronounce it properly which when you meet someone who can’t speak proper English you feel passive towards them for not being able to speak it properly