Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman

     Many have heard of and/or read the bestselling book of 1960: To Kill a Mockingbird. The author, Harper Lee, published this book after two years of editing, and refused to make a sequel. She also refused to be interviewed about this fine piece of literature. She wanted to let the book speak for itself, and has left it untouched—until now.

            It has very recently been announced that the sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird” will be released on July 14^th, 2015. The sequel is titled “Go Set a Watchman” and has already broken sales records for pre-orders on Amazon.com.  You may be wonder why it is that Harper Lee, who is now 88 years old, decided to publish a sequel to a book written over 50 years ago. There is a very interesting story behind this.

            “Go Set a Watchman” was actually written before “To Kill a Mockingbird”.  Go Set a Watchman is about the main character, Jean Louise Finch (Scout), in Mockingbird. Go Set a Watchman takes place after Mockingbird, when 30 year old Scout goes back to Maycomb to visit her father, Atticus. Those who read the original Go Set a Watchman all said that the parts that they most enjoyed were Scout’s flashbacks to her childhood. So Harper Lee rewrote the book all taking place in Scout’s childhood, and that book was then published as “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

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