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Ladataan... Kaikki taivaan linnut (2015)Tekijä: Harper Lee
  
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  ) mancinibo | Nov 30, 2023 |   ) Maryjane75 | Sep 30, 2023 | That being said, the story line was just not that interesting; therefore, I had to give it a 3-star. I found the dialogue confusing, and the political stances confusing. It wasn’t till the very end of the book that I understood how the title even related to the storyline. Isaiah 21:6: “For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.” Jean Louise found out that her father, Atticus, was an implant (a watchman) in the KKK and, later in life, in the Maycomb County Citizen's Council, where all the leading men of Maycomb were in agreement to hold back the Negroes and to keep them from voting themselves into office until they were at least more educated. They were planning their fight against the NAACP. Not the Atticus we learned about in “To Kill a Mockingbird”. He said each man joined for their own reasons. He joined to know who the men were and what their plans were. His intentions were to never go against the law, ever. But, his opinion of Negroes did differ from his daughter, Jean Louise, in the respect that Atticus felt and believed in “white privilege”…anyway, I think that’s what I gathered from the book. When Jean Louise returned home for her 5th visit, she learned this truth about her hometown, friends, and family, which made her angry and she threatened to never return, but her uncle told her that Maycomb needed her. They needed someone who believed like she did...black or white, they were all created equal. They needed someone to open their eyes to the injustices in the ways they treated the blacks of their hometown. She needed to go in and become the “watchman” and persuade opinions little by little. (  ) MissysBookshelf | Aug 27, 2023 | ) br77rino | Aug 23, 2023 |  )1  kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |
 Shockingly, in Ms. Lee’s long-awaited novel, “Go Set a Watchman” (due out Tuesday), Atticus is a racist who once attended a Klan meeting, who says things like “The Negroes down here are still in their childhood as a people.” Or asks his daughter: “Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?” The depiction of Atticus in “Watchman” makes for disturbing reading, and for “Mockingbird” fans, it’s especially disorienting. Scout is shocked to find, during her trip home, that her beloved father, who taught her everything she knows about fairness and compassion, has been affiliating with raving anti-integration, anti-black crazies, and the reader shares her horror and confusion. “Mockingbird” suggested that we should have compassion for outsiders like Boo and Tom Robinson, while “Watchman” asks us to have understanding for a bigot named Atticus.  And so beneath Atticus’s style of enlightenment is a kind of bigotry that could not recognize itself as such at the time. The historical and human fallacies of the Agrarian ideology hardly need to be rehearsed now, but it should be said that these views were not regarded as ridiculous by intellectuals at the time. Indeed, Jean Louise/Lee herself, though passionately opposed to what her uncle and her father are saying, nevertheless accepts the general terms of the debate as the right ones. Go Set a Watchman is a troubling confusion of a novel, politically and artistically, beginning with its fishy origin story. .. I ached for this adult Scout: The civil rights movement may be gathering force, but the second women's movement hasn't happened yet. I wanted to transport Scout to our own time — take her to a performance of Fun Home on Broadway — to know that, if she could only hang on, the possibilities for nonconforming tomboys will open up. Lee herself, writing in the 1950s, lacks the language and social imagination to fully develop this potentially powerful theme.  Despite the boldness and bravery of its politics, Go Set a Watchman is a very rough diamond in literary terms … it is a book of enormous literary interest, and questionable literary merit. It is, in most respects, a new work, and a pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event, akin to the discovery of extra sections from T S Eliot’s The Waste Land or a missing act from Hamlet hinting that the prince may have killed his father. Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinSisältyy tähän:PalkinnotDistinctions
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HTML: Performed by Reese Witherspoon #1 New York Times Bestseller "Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades." ?? New York Times A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize??winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch??"Scout"??returns home to Maycomb, Alabama from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past??a journey that can only be guided by one's own conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of the late Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor, and effortless precision??a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context, and new meaning to an Amer Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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