Ugwu did not believe that anybody, not even this master he was going to live with, ate meat
every day. He did not disagree with his aunty, though, because he was too choked with
expectation, too busy imagining his new life away from the village. They had been walking
for a while now, since they got off the lorry at the motor park, and the afternoon sun burned
the back of his neck. But he did not mind. He was prepared to walk hours more in even
hotter sun. He had never seen anything like the streets that appeared after they went past
the university gates, streets so smooth and tarred that he itched to lay his cheek down on
them. He would never be able to describe to his sister Anulika how the bungalows here
were painted the colour of the sky and sat side by side like polite well-dressed men, how
the hedges separating them were trimmed so flat on top that they looked like tables
wrapped with leaves.

How does the writer use language here to describe Ugwu's impression of the city?
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