![]() ![]() The book begins with Jean Louise reminiscing about her family while she’s traveling back home to Maycomb, Alabama from New York City. ![]() ![]() The sequel to the best-selling book To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman is a story of a 26-year-old Jean Louise Finch who is now an eccentric woman and loves to have her way with things. The southern leaders were extremely against NAACP, a national organization that fought for the rights of the black and viewed it as an organization that has “ filled the blacks with poison till it runs out of their ears.” As seen in the book, various councils were set up by white legislators who made it their mission to defend racial segregation. Board of Education case which held that racial segregation of children in schools was inherently unequal. It accurately displays the reactions of the southern whites to the 1954 Brown v. ![]() The book is set in the 1950s which was a time dominated by exponential post-war growth and the Civil Rights Movement. Initially written by Harper Lee in 1930, Go Set a Watchman was supposed to be the first novel to be published by the author. “Lawyers I suppose, were children once.” – Charles Lamb This book review has been authored by Hunar, Assistant Editor at RSRR. ![]()
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