Book Review: In Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Atticus Finch Defends Jim Crow One of the few unambiguously heroic figures in American literature was originally conceived as a segregationist. Most notably, Go Set A Watchman describes Atticus getting Tom Robinson an acquittal, when in … Go Set a Watchman is an emotional, adult coming-of-age story that explores the issues of race, class, social change, and privilege. The best thing I can say about Go Set a Watchman is that no one will ever accuse it of being written by Truman Capote. Go Set A Watchman is often said as the sequel of ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird’ by Harper Lee, published on July 14, 2015, although it had been written as a draft before the award-winning ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird’. To Kill a Mockingbird. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor, and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. — New York Times . Watchman, however, was set almost two decades after, as the main protagonist Jean Louise Finch has grown to a young lady and Atticus Finch who is 72 & cripple by rheumatoid arthritis. Book review: In the end, ‘Go Set a Watchman’ falls apart. Though I may not have always enjoyed the books I read in high school, Harper Lee’s writing made … Thought to be an early draft of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Harper Lee’s novel is best viewed as a literary artifact. Scout is comically and rather correctly called by her uncle a “ordinary turnip-sized bigot”. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. It’s not To Kill a Mockingbird, and it too often reads like a first draft, but Lee’s story nonetheless has weight and gravity.Scout—that is, Miss Jean Louise Finch—has been living in New York for years. A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Go Set A Watchman tackles a different, more personal moral question – that of our own moral independence. You want to read Go set a Watchman by Harper Lee which probably means you have already read the previous award-winning Harper Lee’s book i.e. Secondly, there are a couple points where references to the events in To Kill A Mockingbird or the history common to both books does not match the description in the first book. Secondly, there are a couple points where references to the events in To Kill A Mockingbird or the history common to both books does not match the description in the first book. For those living in a cave, Go Set a Watchman is a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, the book that popularized the "white people end racism" narrative so maligned in The Help but still celebrated in To Kill a Mockingbird. Most notably, Go Set A Watchman describes Atticus getting Tom Robinson an acquittal, when in … “Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades." Go Set A Watchman is the long awaited sequel to Harper Lee’s classic, “To Kill A Mockingbird.” Most would agree that her first book impacted youth and adults alike. However, there is a slight difference between the content and story of both these books. This is the second published book by Lee. The long-awaited, much-discussed sequel that might have been a prequel—and that makes tolerably good company for its classic predecessor.