In the story the author David Sedaris showed comparing and contrasting at it’s finest. He compared his childhood in North Carolina with another boy named Hugh from Africa. While reading the story you can sense that they go through very similar stuff but the other character experiences are a little more exciting. Hugh went through stuff that kids usually don’t go through like going to a slaughter house! Who takes kids to a slaughter house?! It made David jealous in a way because he felt like he lived an ordinary life with no excitement. He even mentioned “Hugh’s family was hobnobbing with chefs and sultans while I ate hush puppies at the Sanitary Fish Market..”. In every paragraph you can just see how he makes Hugh seem so superior to him, and how badly he wants to liv his life. In the end of the story he even tells the readers how he’s having a dream going on an adventure with Hugh.