Sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird
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Re: Sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird
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"Go Set a Watchman" was written first but was not published at the time. Maybe it was seen as too controversial, or less complete. It is sometimes described as a "sequel" to "Mockingbird", because it takes place much later. Scout has moved to New York City to become a writer. She is home visiting at age 26 and seems taken aback that race relations have deteriorated, blamed locally on the NAACP.
The child-protagonist Scout and her exemplar of an honest lawyer dad, Atticus Finch give "Mockingbird" it's heart. Atticus stands for right, and is a hero to Scout and by extension to us all.
In Watchman, he is much more a man of his time and place. The Atticus who stood up to a lynch mob in "Mockingbird" is complicit in fighting to keep the NAACP "out of our business" in "Watchman. This has shocked many into calling him racist, a label that may be harsh, but is at least partly earned.
Harper Lee published only "Mockingbird" and probably would not have chosen to expose the failings of "Watchman" to the world. It's not a bad book, but not an outstanding one. It is very much a product of the time when it was written, while "Mockingbird" still speaks to us decades after it was first printed.
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Whoever had the rights to it certainly had a lot to gain from publishing it. A second book from a Pulitzer-winning author that was lost for decades is bound to sell well, no matter the quality. So there's a financial reason for publishing. I'm sure there is also an artistic reason: it would be a shame to keep an unknown work from such a well-known author from public view. And finally, it may just have been time to publish it. The book was controversial at the time. It espouses very negative views of the NAACP, which was seen as agitating in the South, getting previously docile blacks riled up. It can be published now with a historical viewpoint, whereas it might have met a more hysterical response at the time.TLGabelman wrote: ↑04 Feb 2015, 08:40 Yes @gali. I didnt mean to imply that I thought she wrote the 'sequel' with limited mental faculties....I am more wondering her sisters reasons for keeping it unpublished and who is looking now to gain from the works after her sisters passing. Make sense?
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