Go Set A Watchman Analysis

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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee was published in 2015, sixty years after the release of her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel was written prior to To Kill a Mockingbird and was supposed to be published, but Lee was told to rewrite it from the perspective of the main character, Jean Louise, as a young girl by her editor. Recently the manuscript was recovered by Harper Lee’s lawyer, Tonja B. Carter. Go Set a Watchman depicts Jean Louise and her struggles of returning to her hometown, Maycomb, twenty years after the first novel. There are varying opinions about the novel ranging from despising it to praising it, and everywhere in between. I fall in the “in between” portion. In my opinion, the book was not great, but I don’t not like it for the same reason that many critics don’t like it for. I felt that the book was too drawn out and didn’t have a clear set plot, which made it confusing and hard to follow at many points. That being said, one of my favorite aspects of the book was seeing the growth and change of the characters from Mockingbird to Watchman. The character development of the characters of Go Set a Watchman is one of the key aspects that made Go Set a Watchman an interesting read. Jean Louise was the main character, and also realized the most about herself and where she stands throughout the novel. Scout comes into the novel not having changed much, she was still her naive self that we had seen in To Kill a Mockingbird. She still wore

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