Written by Harper Lee. First edition, 2015. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers.
"Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience."
Harper Lee first submitted Go Set A Watchman to her editor, and in this early draft, Jean Louise, a young woman who'd left Monroeville, Alabama for New York City, comes home and has her childhood illusions of her father and her hometown shattered by the reality of racism in the Deep South in the 1950s. Her editor believed it was too difficult a story for their readers' sensibilities at the time, in the early days of the Civil Rights movement, and suggested a rewrite from Jean Louise's perspective as a young girl. The result two years later, To Kill A Mockingbird, sealed our affection for Atticus, Scout, Jem and Boo, and our understanding of Tom Robinson, and is revered today as "our national novel".
The New York Times wrote:
"One of the emotional through-lines in both “Mockingbird” and “Watchman” is a plea for empathy — as Atticus puts it in “Mockingbird” to Scout: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” The difference is that “Mockingbird” suggested that we should have compassion for outsiders like Boo and Tom Robinson, while “Watchman” asks us to have understanding for a bigot named Atticus."
Watchman and Mockingbird are two sides of the same coin. Where Mockingbird is idealistic, Watchman is true. To be able to imagine the best we can be, we have to know who we are.
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