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re: Atticus Finch is a Racist Segregationist in Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman"
Posted on 7/12/15 at 7:06 pm to SabiDojo
Posted on 7/12/15 at 7:06 pm to SabiDojo
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My Facebook is inundated with race right now. I had no idea white supremacy took a blow when Serena won Wimbledon. Like, so what about the other 15 years she has dominated tennis?
Sounds like you need better friends.
I bet if you mentioned Arthur Ashe or Evonne Goolagong to any of them you'd get a blank stare.
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Posted on 7/12/15 at 7:34 pm to Bench McElroy
I won't be reading it. TKAM is one of my favorite books and movies and don't want to spoil my image of Atticus!
Posted on 7/12/15 at 7:44 pm to REG861
quote:Not sure I buy that, especially considering the current climate. Can't have white men championing the causes of black men. We're all racists, after all.
I doubt she rewrote the whole thing to make Atticus racist in the last couple of years.
This whole thing is just to assassinate Atticus as an iconic civil rights hero. It just stinks of it.
Posted on 7/12/15 at 8:11 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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The publisher didn't like the initial book so she wrote "To Kill A Mockingbird" which took place earlier.
Except she didn't write TKAM
Posted on 7/12/15 at 8:49 pm to Bench McElroy
I'm actually happy to know this is going to happen. In one of my lit classes in college, the professor was a big time SJW. We spent a month on TKAM. She went on about Atticus being the greatest literary hero EVER. Just to know that she'll hate it, and it'll ruin her greatest hero will make my day.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 4:59 pm to CoachChappy
Just finished reading this. There's really no reason to think of this book as anything but a sequel to TKAM. There are very few internal inconsistencies, a notable one being the outcome of the TKAM trial. Way too many people are making way too big a deal about Atticus' racism as a revelation. In one sense, the theme of Scout's bubble getting burst by Atticus' racial views was blindly prescient since it accurately predicts the current uproar and answers with "it'll be okay."
If you are an older southerner, you will recognize many of the characters in this book.
There's a lot to be said for the editing process and rewriting that led to TKAM. But there is a brilliance to some parts of GSAW that makes me wonder why it wasn't subjected to the editing process, revised and published much earlier.
If you are an older southerner, you will recognize many of the characters in this book.
There's a lot to be said for the editing process and rewriting that led to TKAM. But there is a brilliance to some parts of GSAW that makes me wonder why it wasn't subjected to the editing process, revised and published much earlier.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 5:24 pm to Bench McElroy
Ban the books! Burn the books!
Signed,
Fahrenheit 451
Signed,
Fahrenheit 451
Posted on 7/20/15 at 6:09 pm to BiggerBear
quote:
But there is a brilliance to some parts of GSAW that makes me wonder why it wasn't subjected to the editing process, revised and published much earlier.
I am glad to hear that you thought it was good. I will read it when I get some time.
The reason why everybody is up in arms is the liberal/northern media doesn't understand the South. Never has. They all completely misread TKAM, and now their bubble is burst like you said.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 6:17 pm to drewnbrla
Holy Jesus Christ, do any of you people know anything about the history of this book?
This book was a first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Publisher didn't like it.
To Kill a Mockingbird is the rewrite.
Shady lawyer friend "found" Go Set a Watchman manuscript years ago and more than likely manipulated a very elderly and vulnerable Harper Lee to sign off on its publication. Shady lawyer friend probably gets a nice cut of sales as a "finder's" fee.
Harper Lee never meant for this book to be published, and I think it tarnishes the legacy of "TKAM". I'll never read this book.
This book was a first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Publisher didn't like it.
To Kill a Mockingbird is the rewrite.
Shady lawyer friend "found" Go Set a Watchman manuscript years ago and more than likely manipulated a very elderly and vulnerable Harper Lee to sign off on its publication. Shady lawyer friend probably gets a nice cut of sales as a "finder's" fee.
Harper Lee never meant for this book to be published, and I think it tarnishes the legacy of "TKAM". I'll never read this book.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 6:18 pm to BiggerBear
quote:What?
In one sense, the theme of Scout's bubble getting burst by Atticus' racial views was blindly prescient since it accurately predicts the current uproar and answers with "it'll be okay."
Posted on 7/20/15 at 7:31 pm to blueboy
quote:
This whole thing is just to assassinate Atticus as an iconic civil rights hero. It just stinks of it.
You have to admit that's pretty unlikely. Especially if you factor in Lee's old age and declining mental state. Don't think she'd have it in her to write that change at this point in her life.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 7:44 pm to Bench McElroy
Cashing on that race bait
Posted on 7/20/15 at 8:51 pm to AlxTgr
I'll happily loan you the book if you want read it.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 9:32 pm to BiggerBear
How much of what is ingrained in American literary culture--and just American culture in general--is evident in Go Set A Watchman? Could it not have been re-written with the same characters with different names? Or is it obviously Scout and Atticus? It seems like another novel by Harper Lee would have sold very well sans the prequel/sequel angle.
It seems like a completely unnecessary tainting of one of the greatest American novels. Not necessarily because of the racism, but because Atticus seems like a different character. Would the Atticus of TKAM behave this way? Are his motivations consistent? If not, why not make him a different character?
It seems like a completely unnecessary tainting of one of the greatest American novels. Not necessarily because of the racism, but because Atticus seems like a different character. Would the Atticus of TKAM behave this way? Are his motivations consistent? If not, why not make him a different character?
Posted on 7/20/15 at 9:49 pm to BiggerBear
quote:I'd rather you just explain it to me.
I'll happily loan you the book if you want read it.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 10:06 pm to AlxTgr
Let's do another lunch. I don't want to type that much.
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