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Jean Louis As A Hero Essay

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The sequel of the popular novel To Kill a Mockingbird, presents a rather controversial take on familiar characters, and explores ideas left untouched in the first book. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee decides to tackle the subject of human principles and morality, consciousness, the way people can be affected by their environment, and the very idea of a hero. The book emphasizes the way perspective can change with age, as people explore different things, live in different places, and learn from observing. Jean Louis, as she now prefers to be named, revisits her hometown of Maycomb and reconnects with relatives and old friends, but becomes troubled as her father doesn't meet the standards of the idealized version she had created of him Being raised in a patriarchal society Jean Louis has been forced to put men in a pedestal, skewing the reality of the situation. By realizing the imperfections of her father, the reader must also, alongside with her, reflect on the events of the first book and realize the narrator might have been unreliable at times. Jem Finch had been seen as a hero by his sister in a way as well, but being that he died young not much can be known about his person from the perspective of a grown up woman, and not a child. Jean Louis …show more content…

Jean Louis had the opportunity to go out and live outside of the the town of Maycomb; she kept the values and lessons she learned in her childhood and applied them to her life in the north. The people in the south however, had not advanced as much socially, and still kept many of the backwards beliefs that were present in the 1930s. Jean Louis family, and the town in general, face a number of different issues in their community, but no change seems to be made. At the time it resulted natural for people to contemplate different solutions to improve the life of the people, even if to a person in a ,modern society it results ludicrous to

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