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Harper Lee Outdoes Herself–Beyond To Kill A Mockingbird With Watchman [Picture]
This is redemption.and is the workof a master, I haven’t of course read Watchman, but the idea is a literary tool, where he author takes a characer back to his not so noble past and shoeing him in all of his pus filled mental corruption.
Lee being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, November 5, 2007
The question always is: who will watch the watchers? Or, in this case, who will watch the watchers change??
Do peoplec hange, can one evolve from one perspective or worldviewew to another?
For fans of Harper Lee, there is a new literary sensation. Atticus Finch, the beloved champion of racial justice in her best-selling novel To Kill a Mockingbird, is portrayed in her eagerly-anticipated new book as a racist bigot, according to the first US reviews.
The damning depiction in Go Set a Watchmen will be as shocking for Mockingbird fans as the revelation earlier this year that a second novel bythe reclusive author was to be published after the discovery of a long-lost manuscript.
In Lee’s 1960 masterpiece, Atticus Finch was a small-town Alabama lawyer who defended a black man wrongly accused of rape by a white woman, and in the process took on the prejudice and hatred of the Deep South in the 1930s.
Those courtroom heroics, captured by Gregory Peck in the Hollywood adaptation of the film two years later, turned him a principled, almost idealised role model for generations of American readers.
Some named their children Atticus in his honour; others were inspired by his character to law school to fight for civil liberties.source
