Go Set aWatchman
Review of Harper Lees second book.
I promised to let you know what I thought of the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird. Honestly,I was mad. How can she completely change the results of a trial so deeply ingrained into our memories? She says a few times as Scout, recalling how her daddy Atticus got the colored boy off in the past. When I just got done listening to TKAM where the poor guy was evicted, went to jail, and got shot while he was in jail!
To me that is way too much of a disconnect to the original.
I did respect Jean Louise as an adult, but the whole thing left me wanting more. She did finally become her own person and even confronted her father on her sense of betrayal. Then she didn’t marry Hank, but went on to make another date with him when she most definitely will not marry him.
Sad that the racial division issues seem to have been ignored with NAACP and government times unsettling. Even more sad that in today’s world still people are not color blind.
People are people.
I like her Uncle Jack. But when she goes to comfort Calpurnia, to find her with company manners, and treating her like all the other white folk, after Cal practically raised her, broke my heart.
I see Scout going back to NYC and rarely returning home. But there is a shred of hope in the end.
Worth the listen, or read. Makes one think how far we have come… and yet how far we still have to go.
Harper Lee was a genius.