Go Set A Watchman By Harper Lee

Throughout Go Set A Watchman, the protagonist is able to work through why her father’s racism is unethical, elucidating the issues in racism in the 1900s. After learning about Atticus’s new way of looking at life, Jean Louise defiantly claims that “[she will] never believe a word [Atticus] say[s] to [her] again [as she] despises him and everything [he] stand[s] for (Go Set A Watchman 152). After the revelation that Atticus has been acting racist in order to

Being a Finch in the small Southern town of Maycomb, affords Jean Louise and the rest of her family special privileges and freedoms but the privileges come with strict expectations and responsibilities. Jean Louise does not realize that she comes from a respected family and she has certain privileges that she can, and often does, take for granted. This invisibility of privilege becomes evident later in the book when Hank points out to her that, “‘You’re a Finch… you can parade around town in your dungarees with your shirttail out and barefooted if you want to” (Lee 231). Jean Louise has freedoms that other people don’t get to enjoy because if somebody of a lower status, such as Hank, were to drift from the ‘norm’ Maycomb would say “‘ That’s

“Everybody sees what you appear to be ... few people know who you really are.” This saying illustrates that if you appear one way, no one can see who you really are inside. When someone appears one way, you do not really get to know them but when they truly become themselves you can really see who they are and not just who they appear to be. However, they may only reveal their true selves to some people and keep acting like a different person to everyone else, or keep everything to themselves and do not show anyone their true self. Dolphus Raymond, Boo Radley and Atticus Finch in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, all show themselves in a different way. Dolphus reveals himself to Scout and Dill during the trial at the court.

Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman the readers learn about the character Jean Louise. The two books give an idea of her family's background, how she was raised, and how the teachings of her father shaped her into becoming the woman she is; whose adult mindset comes to light in Go Set a Watchman. This essay will explore who Jean Louise was as a child and how she is as an adult, and how I might relate or differ.

Have you ever felt like you wee never afraid to speak your mind? That is what Jean Louise Finch(Scout) felt like throughout this book. It is full of old things that Scout has missed out on, and worse things yet to come. Go Set a watchman was written by the now deceased Harper Lee. This book shows what the south is all about: money and drama.

Jean Louise Finch, also referred to as Scout, is a 26 year old woman who returns for two weeks to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama during the mid-1950s. During this time period, more and more people were becoming involved in the Civil Rights movement as well as being informed about the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. The Board of Education decision as well as the NAACP. It does not occur to Jean Louise that these ideas were just now being introduced to the Maycomb Community. The novel starts off with Jean Louise arriving in Maycomb in the late evening. Having been gone for such a long time, Scout reunites with her her father, aunt, and friends. Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, who is 72 years old in the novel, continues to be an active lawyer for Maycomb

People often fear what they don 't understand. Evolutionary psychology can be traced back millions of years, when fear was avoided because of its repercussion of death. An aversion to the unknown was usually safer. Therefore, evolution culled for human traits that feared and avoided the unknown. Fear of the unknown shows how people become narrow-minded and ignorant to their surroundings, and how people behave when they believe something will happen even though they are solely intolerant. This ideology directly correlates to Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a MockingBird. Throughout the story, the townspeople attempt to overcome their various fears by turning against each other. In Maycomb, fear enforces racism and causes the townspeople to

Taking place about twenty years after To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman is an extension of sorts of the award-winning novel. Harper Lee writes about Scout, who goes by Jean Louise in Watchman, when she is in her twenties, and is in a relationship with her brother 's childhood friend Henry, who

There was a copious amount of discrimination in the 1930’s deep south, whether it be racism or sexism. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, conflicts arise when an African-American man is unjustly accused of raping a white woman in the sleepy town of Maycomb, Alabama. Citizens of the town are forced to choose whether they believe to follow what the rest of the town thinks, whether that is their true opinion or not, and be honest with themselves and stand up for who they really think is innocent. However, as shown throughout the book, many people have trouble publicly announcing their opinions on the matter, choosing to convey their opinions in more subtle ways. Because of different occasions that question people’s morals and virtues

‘“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-…-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”’(Lee 33). Said by Atticus Finch, this is perhaps the most important line from the book because it makes Scout Finch become who she becomes. Throughout the plot of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout Finch’s views and understanding of the society that surrounds her changes very drastically. Her understanding of the good and evil in society evolves the most, due to the teachings of Atticus Finch. In the beginning of the book, Scout Finch was what every child once was; innocent and simple. As the book progressed, she became aware that life was a complex and confusing world, and she struggled to

“There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance” (Lee 296). In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses many different conflicts to prove the point that overcoming obstacles is tough to do alone. The narrator of this book is Scout Finch, who takes us through her childhood in a city called Maycomb in Alabama in the 1930s. Maycomb is like every other city in the south, most people being racist. Scout and her brother, Jem, are the children of Atticus Finch, who tries to teach them many lessons about growing up and about life. Atticus is the lawyer for a black man named Tom Robinson in a trial where he is being trialed for raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. It is a detriment that Tom is black because there is a lot of racism. Mayella’s family is a dirty and disrespectful family in that town. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses conflict to show that overcoming obstacles cannot be done by a single person.

Both Harper Lee and Ta-Nehisi Coates convey a message through their work about man’s conscience and living in a prejudiced world through different racial lenses and perspectives, along with their personal experiences. Atticus provides his daughter, Jean-Louise (Scout) lessons about the conscience of man in a prejudiced world in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus, being the progressive and intelligent father that he is, regularly reads to his children, Jem and Scout. Scout’s school teacher, Miss Caroline, who is from out of town, quickly notices how advanced Scout is at reading at a young age and beckons her to stop reading at home, as it throws off the curriculum.

People, especially children, often make mistakes that will either lead to great or undesirable outcomes. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the children make several mistakes that help them mature. Firstly, the children learn how courage is more than just physical strength. Likewise, they learn that if you judge someone by their race, you will never understand their true inner character. Finally, they learn that in order to understand someone, you must understand what experiences they have been through and what they are currently experiencing. Therefore, the children’s early mistakes in judgement teach them valuable lessons, which help them make more mature decisions later on.

One woman in Maycomb even said, “I wouldn’t want to get mixed up with all those Italians and Puerto Ricans. In a drugstore one day I looked around and there was a Negro woman eating her dinner right next to me, right next to me” (Lee 181). This shows how Maycomb has changed since she was a little girl in Maycomb and how different it is from New York City. When she returns to Maycomb, she is forced to stand up for herself and what she knows is right because no one else believes the same thing. Even her father has fallen into the trap of feeling like he is superior to African Americans despite the fact that when Jean Louise was growing up, he was known for his “Integrity, humor, and patience” and for being fair and equal (114). Because the town has become so racist and segregated, everyone is becoming involved, even the most unsuspecting

Everyone remembers the days of their innocence and everyone remembers when it was taken away, but what does innocence really mean? Innocence means one is unsullied and does not yet know evil. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the mockingbirds represent the novel’s innocent characters. Scout and her older brother Jem live in the old town of Maycomb, Alabama. The two encounter different instances in which they begin to notice and question what has been occurring around them, as their father Atticus takes on a case. Harper Lee depicts how innocence fades as children grasp the painful realities they experience when Scout and Jem face harsh criticisms, are helpless against atrocities, and realize a new perspective.