To Kill A Mockingbird Sequel

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For more than half a century, “To Kill a Mockingbird” has stood apart as a singular American literary masterpiece, a perennial best seller that has provoked countless classroom discussions about racial and social injustice. It brought instant and overwhelming fame to its enigmatic author, Harper Lee, who soon retreated from the spotlight to her native Monroeville, Ala. She never published another book, leaving her millions of fans yearning for more.

Now, at age 88, Ms. Lee has revealed that she wrote another novel after all — a sequel of sorts to “To Kill a Mockingbird,” featuring an aging Atticus Finch and his grown daughter, Scout.


On Tuesday, Ms. Lee’s publisher announced its plans to release that novel, recently rediscovered, which Ms. Lee completed in the mid-1950s, before she wrote “To Kill A Mockingbird.” The 304-page book, “Go Set a Watchman,” takes place 20 years later in the same fictional town, Maycomb, Ala., and unfolds as Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, the feisty child heroine of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” returns to visit her father. The novel, which is scheduled for release this July, tackles the racial tensions brewing in the South in the 1950s and delves into the complex relationship between father and daughter.

 

[blakep267]

Part of me wonders of this is legit. Like it's been 50 years so why now

By legit I mean that she actually wrote it and this is not just a publishing company and her having a ghost writer write it and using this as PR for the book

 

[The_Isomotion31]

Just read about this. I'll give it a read.

 

[shogun]

I don't even remember what the original book was about.

 

[plansb]

I read that she actually wrote this book first, and then the publisher or someone said a book set during the flashbacks would be good and then she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird and that blew up and kind of forgot about the first book.  Sounds like she was just the kind of person who kept to herself and didnt want to be bothered, and someone discovered that book and pushed her to publish it.

 

[dh1water]

so her sister/lawyer passes away, and now people are looking to make a buck off a story that was never intended to be released...unethical life hack?

 

[AgentZero]

I don't even remember what the original book was about.

In short, it is about prejudices people have and one family's experiences with them.

Atticus, the father, strives to raise his kids Jem and Scout right and to not let prejudices such as racism and rumors affect them. It is a challenge because they live in the south and what they see and hear at school and around town influences the way they view the poor, blacks, and their strange and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. All of this comes together when Atticus, who's a lawyer, defends Tom Robinson, a black man, in a rape case brought on by the antagonist, Bob Ewell. They experience backlash because of this and Boo Radley ends up playing an unlikely role in helping the family.

It's definitely a good read.

 

[arstyle27]

Read it in HS back in the day. Great book.

 

[dathbgboy]

They gon ban this one from schools too?

 

[8pm at msg]

Will read (if true)

 

[tyonenine]

I don't even read books now, but I may read this. The original was pretty good.

 

[joe cool]

I don't even remember what the original book was about.

In short, it is about prejudices people have and one family's experiences with them.

Atticus, the father, strives to raise his kids Jem and Scout right and to not let prejudices such as racism and rumors affect them. It is a challenge because they live in the south and what they see and hear at school and around town influences the way they view the poor, blacks, and their strange and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. All of this comes together when Atticus, who's a lawyer, defends Tom Robinson, a black man, in a rape case brought on by the antagonist, Bob Ewell. They experience backlash because of this and Boo Radley ends up playing an unlikely role in helping the family.

It's definitely a good read.

here you go son, educate yourself b for next time a girl tries to get you got for busting up her chifferobe

 

[Master Zik]

It'll be so weird reading this.