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« Reply #25 on: July 14, 2015, 05:00:20 AM »

There was an interesting article on Atticus Finch by Malcolm Gladwell in the Summer in the New Yorker - it can be found here , i think somebody posted it here before, but it provides what is perhaps an interesting contrast to the general sentiments on display in this thread.

That was an enlightening read. I'm glad this thread was bumped so that I could find out about it.
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« Reply #26 on: July 14, 2015, 07:56:38 AM »

he's being slowly punched to death.

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« Reply #27 on: July 14, 2015, 11:18:14 AM »

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« Reply #28 on: July 14, 2015, 07:34:02 PM »

I don't get the surprise about Atticus Finch; when I read the book I assumed that Finch was more about the law than he was about racial equality. Anyways, I bought the book today. I'm going to let a friend read it first though, since I am busy reading another biography at the moment.
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« Reply #29 on: July 14, 2015, 09:28:30 PM »
« Edited: July 15, 2015, 12:27:54 PM by Speaker Harry S Truman »

I think it's worth questioning whether the Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird bird and the Atticus Finch in Go Set a Watchman should be viewed as a single, cohesive character. From what I've read, Watchman is essentially Harper Lee's first draft of the novel that became Mockingbird, with obvious differences in the perspective from which it is being told. As any writer will tell you, a story can undergo dramatic transformations during the re-writing process; I would therefore be highly skeptical of any attempt to evaluate the the Atticus of Mockingbird based on the Atticus of Watchman.
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« Reply #30 on: July 14, 2015, 10:32:05 PM »

I think it's worth questioning whether the Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird bird and the Atticus Finch in Go Set a Watchman should be viewed as a single, cohesive character. From what I've read, Watchman is essentially Harper Lee's first draft of the novel that became Mockingbird, with obvious differences in the perspective from which it is being told. As any writer will tell you, a story can undergo dramatic transformations during the re-writing process; I would therefore be highly skeptical of any attempt to evaluate the the Atticus of Mockingbird and the Atticus of Watchman.

There's a reason she shut this book away in a drawer for a half-century before someone dug it up and published it.
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« Reply #31 on: July 17, 2015, 03:50:48 PM »


This deserves a thousand more credits than it gets.
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