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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