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Cultural Context To Kill A Mockingbird
Cultural and historical context is similar but also very different. Cultural context includes things like beliefs, behaviors, and ideas shared by a common group of people. Culture is learned throughout time. These learned things are taught with languages, social norms, and things like music. It is showed in things like age, ethnicity, or even how the social class is structured. Historical context is more straight forward. Historical context is the idea that that whatever material you're writing about in the past will be written differently and sound different than if it was written in the present day. This is very easily relatable to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Going to just about any page you can point out how things would be different.

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