< > 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.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”