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The Sixty Year Journey of "Go Set a Watchman" 226 Views
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Breathe easy, Shmoopers. You don't have to be a time traveler to unravel the mysterious timeline of "Go Set a Watchman." We've got it covered.
...Not that we're saying we're time travelers, or anything...that'd be...
totally
crazy...
...Forget we were ever here.
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Thank you We sneak in Go set a watchman Allah
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shmoop When go set a watchman was published in two
- 00:08
thousand fifteen People all over the world asked the same
- 00:12
question Our relieves still alive Their confusion was understandable if
- 00:17
you texted your friend and she didn't respond for sixty
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- 00:20
five years Well you might think she was dead too
- 00:23
though just to clear up any confusion The killa mockingbird
- 00:26
was published in nineteen Sixty go Set a watchman was
- 00:29
published in two thousand fifteen And harper lee Well she
- 00:33
was alive and kicking the entire time What she wasn't
- 00:36
doing however was writing because go set a watchman Well
- 00:41
it's Not exactly a new book So where the heck
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did this book come from Well let's turn back time
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a little bit In the mid nineteen fifties harper lee
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wrote the novel Go set a watchman Yep You heard
- 00:52
that right The mid fifties he submitted her manuscript to
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the publishing house J b lippincott company But publishing house
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well they weren't exactly impressed by her manuscript As a
- 01:03
matter of fact only one person working there saw any
- 01:06
spark of potential in harper lee teresa von whole hoff
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Tory or as her friends felder hey well tell ian
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lee work together editing a new manuscript which would eventually
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become to kill a mockingbird well to kill a mockingbird
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was technically harper lee second book but it was her
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first one published It was released in nineteen sixty won
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the pulitzer prize in nineteen sixty one was adapted into
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an oscar winning film starring gregory pack in nineteen sixty
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two and wiggled its way every american classroom from the
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rest of the century And well for reverend After all
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of that success it would only be natural for harper
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lee to start turning out book after book right on
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that quite lead disappeared from public view almost entirely way
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guess life sometimes does imitate art Well that's not to
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say she never wrote again She was allegedly working on
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a second book titled the long goodbye but she said
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good bye to that a long long time ago These
- 02:02
last public appearance was in two thousand seven when she
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was awarded a presidential medal of freedom Everyone wanted to
- 02:08
know two things Why didn't she ever write again And
- 02:11
who cut that woman's hair Unfortunately there are some things
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We'll never know Lee who still lived in our hometown
- 02:17
of monroeville alabama refused to talk to the press Even
- 02:21
oprah She hid behind her attorney who happen to be
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her sister alice When alice died in november two thousand
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fourteen at age one hundred three please Fran tonia carter
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took over his lease attorney well one day while doing
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official lawyerly business a rummaging through lead stuff carter found
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the manuscript for go set a watchman a manuscript no
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one else knew existed well Carter submitted the manuscript to
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harpercollins publishers who published the book with only a light
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copy at it The book was promoted as a sequel
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to to kill a mockingbird is it follows many of
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the same characters two decades later But remember go set
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a watchman was written before mockingbird all a bit of
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wiggly wobbly timey whiny mess But the whole ordeal raised
- 03:05
concerns and harper lee rumored to be mostly deaf and
- 03:08
blind in eighty eight agreed to publish the book only
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answer seems to be yes An investigation did conclude she
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endorsed the book's publication and considering that not even oprah
- 03:19
can talkto lead we got will be getting any clarification
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On the matter So there it is The sixty year
- 03:25
journey of go set a watchman one big questions still
- 03:28
remain What else was found in harbor lee's archives Will
- 03:32
we hear from harper lee again And like seriously who
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cut her hair Shmoop amongst yourselves Let us know what 00:03:38.54 --> [endTime] you think
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