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Hugh Sedaris Analysis

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Sedaris had believed his childhood was so boring in comparison to his partner Hugh’s childhood. Sedaris compares his childhood to Hugh’s childhood a lot until he started to have feelings of resentment towards him. Sedaris says, “We had a collie and a house cat… They had a monkey and two horses named Charlie Brown and Satan… I threw stones at stop sighs… Hugh threw stones at crocodiles” (Paragraph 8). Just like every other child would have believed, Sedaris believed throwing stones at crocodiles was more entertaining than throwing rocks at stop signs. Clearly, Sedaris does not realize what kind of danger Hugh could have been in. Sedaris says, “No fifteen-foot python ever wandered onto my school’s basketball court… I begged, I prayed nightly,

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