Go Set a Watchman is out and all abuzz about Harper Lee’s new but old
manuscript.
Watched
To Kill a Mockingbird
countless times.
This time
it moved me
in ways
more deeply.
When you know the story already,
the details become
more striking.
The trees’ leaves
play a role.
Scout and her brother Jem
are out at night
quite a bit.
The black and white film
intensifies
light, darkness and shadows.
Sometimes it is scary.
They call their father
Atticus.
When
Tom Robinson, a Negro
was standing trial
for raping
a young white girl,
Scout and Jem
ran to the courthouse
to watch the trial.
Sitting in the balcony
with the town’s Negros,
they listened to
Atticus giving an
impassioned defense.
“All men are created equal”.
Mockingbird
was published in 1960,
barely before
the civil rights movement
began.
Recent events,
the murder of 9 people
at a Bible study
in a Charleston church
have brought many people
together.
The Confederate flag
still a symbol of the…
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