Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
- Oct 25, 2015
- 2 min read
Scout has grown up and is visiting her home town of Maycomb, Ala after having lived in New York for some time. The young woman is baffled by what she finds and comes to realize that she has out-grown seeing the world through the eyes of the adults that she believed to trust and to know as a child. Follow Scout as she ‘sets her own watchman’ to her ideals, beliefs and view of the Negroes in Maycomb. She is sure to take you on an interesting journey; allow me to explain why...
Four reasons why you should read
"Go Set A Watchman" by Harper Lee
#1) "Go Set A Watchman" is a great sequel to "To Kill A Mockingbird". Not simply another book written by Harper Lee but a continuation of the beloved story that you most likely read as a child. The characters are familiar and not random.
#2) Perspective and being able to walk in someone else's shoes is what makes us human. The book gives you the perspective of what a supposed racist white man looks like to his daughter.
#3) Time Travel! Who doesn't like time travel? Go back to a slower time period when people sat on their porch and sipped their sweet tea and spoke of propriety and southern hospitality.
#4) "Go Set A Watchman", for those who read "To Kill A Mockingbird" as a child, will be a nostalgic read. I read "To Kill A Mockingbird" as a child and was basically the same age as Scout, now I get to grow up with Scout in Lee's sequel and it was a very nostalgic experience.
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God's name was cited three times in this book. I think it's really neat because God's name is hard to come by now-a-days and is removed from places where it should really be found (i.e. The Original Hebrew and Greek Scriptures). To find it in "Go Set A Watchman" was exciting for me! The first occurrence is on page 30 ¶ 5. The other two...you'll have to play hide and seek with them because I forgot which pages they appear on.
I learned about this book's release in The Wall Street Journal on July 10, 2015. The Journal did a fabulous promo on the book in showing pictures of Lee returning home to Alabama and also revealing all of the secrecy and prep behind making sure the book's release stayed top secret.
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Do you believe that Atticus Finch was portrayed differently in
"Go Set A Watchman"? Why/Why not?
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