![]() ![]() Go Set a Watchman will feature a number of other Mockingbird characters. The book centers around Scout’s relationship with her father and his worldview, as well as her attitude towards her hometown in a new era of continued, if not heightened, racial tension. Jean Louise Finch, traveling from New York back to her home of Maycomb, Alabama to visit her father, Atticus. Set in the mid-Fifties, Go Set a Watchman finds a grown-up Scout, a.k.a. I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told.” “My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout’s childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout. “It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman and I thought it a pretty decent effort,” Lee said. The recently unearthed book is a quasi-sequel to Lee’s 1960 classic, but as the author explained in a statement, Go Set a Watchman was actually written first and would eventually inspire Mockingbird. ![]() Lee released a second novel: Go Set a Watchman, written just before To Kill a Mockingbird but set 20 years later featuring Scout as a grown woman based in New York City who returns to her Alabama childhood home to visit her father. After more than 50 years, author Harper Lee will follow up her beloved, and only, book To Kill a Mockingbird with her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, set for release on July 14th, publisher HarperCollins announced today. In To Kill a Mockingbird: Analysis, adaptations, and Go Set a Watchman. ![]()
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