![]() It was written before “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and the young author was asked by a shrewd editor to put the manuscript aside and return in her mind to the heroine’s earlier days, which are barely mentioned.įor instance, one gets only a few paragraphs in “Watchman” about the rape of a white girl and the black man, Tom Robinson, accused of the crime.Īs a young lawyer, Atticus – the widowed father of two children, Scout and Jem – takes Robinson’s case because his conscience dictates that he do so. ![]() The new novel isn’t a sequel, though it functions in that way. ![]() He doesn’t want them to get their voting rights, he explains, “because if the Negro vote edged out the white you’d have Negroes in every county office.” ![]()
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