Their conversation reveals how, despite Jende’s lack of formal education, each possesses a knowledge that the other doesn’t have. Jende probably speaks far better French than Clark, due to French being one of Cameroon's official languages; but, he’s never had the privilege of going to France and is unfamiliar with Stanford as a prestigious academic institution. He knows of Clark’s home state only from Winston’s stories. In the conversation they each reveal more about themselves. Clark, like Jende, exposes his wistfulness for his original home.