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Modernization
Ch-ch-changes."Kew Gardens" has a very distinct historical setting. On the surface, the garden setting might seem timeless, but references to war, machinery, and industrialization remind us that the characters' are living in a period of tremendous modernization. They can try to escape it by taking a pretty garden stroll, but the truth is that it's never far away…
Reminders of the modern world penetrate the characters' lives even while they stroll through Kew Gardens.
The gardens themselves might be taken as instances of modernization: they are engineered settings within an urban environment.
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