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Youth
Youth bounces around "Kew Gardens" like the butterflies that float through the garden. It enters the story in several different ways: some characters reminisce about their youth, while other characters—children (like Hubert and Caroline) and adolescents (like the young couple)—represent the experience of youth. The garden setting itself (the blooming flowers, the flourishing animal and plant life) seems to possess an underlying correlation to the contemplation and representation of youth. Maybe it's the flowers—there's something fleetingly beautiful about a flower in bloom, similar to the fleeting beauty of youth. Or the fleeting deliciousness of a bag of kettle corn—it's always gone too soon.
The garden setting inspires several of the story's older characters to reminisce about memories of their youth.
The story draws a correlation between nature in its "prime" and humans in their "prime" (or youth).
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