6/29/2023 0 Comments To kill a mockingbird follow up![]() ![]() We learn, in a passage virtually identical to one in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” of the town’s origin as county seat. Lee introduces us to Maycomb, its history and inconsistencies, as if we have never been here before. That’s just one of many points of divergence, or overlap, between the novels, which are related in a complicated way.Īccording to numerous accounts, “Go Set a Watchman” is the earliest version of the manuscript that became “To Kill a Mockingbird,” acquired by Lippincott in 1957 and subjected, under the guidance of editor Tay Hohoff, to what Smithsonian Magazine once called “a title-on-down revision.” For us readers, that means we can’t help but engage with “Go Set a Watchman” through a filter of comparison. Tom was memorably convicted in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” even with no evidence against him, whereas in “Go Set a Watchman,” Atticus “accomplished what was never before or afterward done in Maycomb County: He won acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge.” ![]() ![]() ![]() It ended in a small shriveled hand.”Īnd yet, those two trials come to very different outcomes. Such a description recalls Tom Robinson, whose trial for a similar offense is at the center of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” “His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right,” the author explains in that novel, “and hung dead at his side. ![]()
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