< > 4 Based on what the reader learns about Hugh's life in Africa in the
previous paragraphs, what is ironic about the narrator feeling “jealous"
about Hugh's experiences growing up?
The narrator's mother often told him as a boy to not be jealous
of what other people had and to be thankful for his life in North
Carolina.
Most people don't think going to visit a slaughterhouse, to look
B at bloody curtains, or to watch an old man chew up rancid goat
meat are things to be jealous about.
Hugh was jealous of the narrator's ordinary life in the North
Carolina suburbs.
Africa is a place where most people find new and unusual
experiences.