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A review by jodumagpi
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
3.0
(3.5)
It's good to know that there is doubt as to whether Lee had even written (or wanted to publish) this herself.
Also, I'm glad I wasn't the only one annoyed by the writing style. Shifting between first and third person? Really? That alone cost a whole star off this rating.
I appreciate what they were trying to accomplish with this work. I saw too much of myself in Jean Louise. Like her, I had "idolized" some people whose opinions I took as mine. Until now, I still don't have a solid ground on some pressing issues. What I did not appreciate was how it ended. Just as Jean Louise is finally holding her ground! Jean Louise should have immediately left! That would have been the perfect ending for me. Because she didn't I had to cross off half a star.
This book ruined Atticus for me. Perhaps, that was the intention. Still, I will never be able to comprehend how a parent can look their child in their eyes and say they love them when they are fully capable and aware of the suffering they inflict on the people they "other". How can one raise a child in a world they are actively trying to divide?
I just feel so strongly about these issues. God forbid this would happen to me in real life because I sure won't be Jean Louise fetching whoever you are from wherever you are. I'd be driving as far away from you if I can't ever change your mind. And for the record, I know that doesn't make me a bigot!
It's good to know that there is doubt as to whether Lee had even written (or wanted to publish) this herself.
Also, I'm glad I wasn't the only one annoyed by the writing style. Shifting between first and third person? Really? That alone cost a whole star off this rating.
I appreciate what they were trying to accomplish with this work. I saw too much of myself in Jean Louise. Like her, I had "idolized" some people whose opinions I took as mine. Until now, I still don't have a solid ground on some pressing issues. What I did not appreciate was how it ended. Just as Jean Louise is finally holding her ground! Jean Louise should have immediately left! That would have been the perfect ending for me. Because she didn't I had to cross off half a star.
This book ruined Atticus for me. Perhaps, that was the intention. Still, I will never be able to comprehend how a parent can look their child in their eyes and say they love them when they are fully capable and aware of the suffering they inflict on the people they "other". How can one raise a child in a world they are actively trying to divide?
I just feel so strongly about these issues. God forbid this would happen to me in real life because I sure won't be Jean Louise fetching whoever you are from wherever you are. I'd be driving as far away from you if I can't ever change your mind. And for the record, I know that doesn't make me a bigot!