Dennis Pang
Mrs. Marsella-Jensen
English 10H, Period 1
January 5 2016
Go Set a Watchman ORB Report
Plot Summary Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel begins with Jean Louise “Scout” Finch returning home to visit her 72 year old father, Atticus Finch. She steps off the train at her destination, Maycomb, Alabama, and is surprised to see her boyfriend Henry “Hank” Clinton picking her up, instead of her father. She spends the next several days relaxing and catching up with old friends, but returns home one day to find a racist magazine on Atticus’ desk. Outraged, she goes out to look for him, and finds both Atticus and Henry at a citizens’ council meeting (basically a KKK meeting). She is deeply upset …show more content…
Characters
Jean Louise “Scout” Finch - one of the main characters of the novel. She was also one of the main characters of To Kill a Mockingbird, but with a 17 year age gap. Scout returns to Maycomb County to visit both her boyfriend Henry and her aging father Atticus. She comes back to discover that everything as she knew it had changed, leading to the main conflict of the book.
Atticus Finch - Scout’s father and another one of the main characters. He suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, but is still able to function normally otherwise. Sometime before the novel started, he had won a black man’s acquittal in a rape trial, but now attends white supremacist meetings. This is one of the changes that infuriates Scout, and is part of the main conflict of the book.
Henry “Hank” Clinton - veteran of the war, “rednecked trash,” Atticus’ shadow, and another main character. He was also voted man of the year by the Kiwanis club, and wishes to marry Scout. She refuses to marry him, concerned that she may cheat on him, but Hank still persists. He is seen at the citizens’ council meeting by Scout, which infuriates …show more content…
Conflicts The main conflict of this book comes in the form of change. Scout has always been used to Maycomb as it was before, but in the years that she’s been gone, her home had changed. For example, hostility between the black and white inhabitants were at an all time high, and her childhood home had been sold away. Her family and friends, all of whom used to be nice, tolerant people, became racist supremacists in her absence. Unable to accept this new Maycomb, Scout experiences an inner conflict, and spends most of the book trying to work these conflicts out.
D. Climax The climax of the book comes in chapter 17, where Scout confronts her father Atticus. All of the previous events -- Scout seeing Hank and Atticus in the council meeting, all of the change she encounters in Maycomb, Calpurnia’s hostility towards her -- have led up to this moment. Scout’s argument leaves her relationship with her father in shambles, and she storms away to cool off. However, this issue is resolved at the end of the book, where Atticus and Jean Louise decide to try and work out their issues
Mrs. Marsella-Jensen
English 10H, Period 1
January 5 2016
Go Set a Watchman ORB Report
Plot Summary Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel begins with Jean Louise “Scout” Finch returning home to visit her 72 year old father, Atticus Finch. She steps off the train at her destination, Maycomb, Alabama, and is surprised to see her boyfriend Henry “Hank” Clinton picking her up, instead of her father. She spends the next several days relaxing and catching up with old friends, but returns home one day to find a racist magazine on Atticus’ desk. Outraged, she goes out to look for him, and finds both Atticus and Henry at a citizens’ council meeting (basically a KKK meeting). She is deeply upset …show more content…
Characters
Jean Louise “Scout” Finch - one of the main characters of the novel. She was also one of the main characters of To Kill a Mockingbird, but with a 17 year age gap. Scout returns to Maycomb County to visit both her boyfriend Henry and her aging father Atticus. She comes back to discover that everything as she knew it had changed, leading to the main conflict of the book.
Atticus Finch - Scout’s father and another one of the main characters. He suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, but is still able to function normally otherwise. Sometime before the novel started, he had won a black man’s acquittal in a rape trial, but now attends white supremacist meetings. This is one of the changes that infuriates Scout, and is part of the main conflict of the book.
Henry “Hank” Clinton - veteran of the war, “rednecked trash,” Atticus’ shadow, and another main character. He was also voted man of the year by the Kiwanis club, and wishes to marry Scout. She refuses to marry him, concerned that she may cheat on him, but Hank still persists. He is seen at the citizens’ council meeting by Scout, which infuriates …show more content…
Conflicts The main conflict of this book comes in the form of change. Scout has always been used to Maycomb as it was before, but in the years that she’s been gone, her home had changed. For example, hostility between the black and white inhabitants were at an all time high, and her childhood home had been sold away. Her family and friends, all of whom used to be nice, tolerant people, became racist supremacists in her absence. Unable to accept this new Maycomb, Scout experiences an inner conflict, and spends most of the book trying to work these conflicts out.
D. Climax The climax of the book comes in chapter 17, where Scout confronts her father Atticus. All of the previous events -- Scout seeing Hank and Atticus in the council meeting, all of the change she encounters in Maycomb, Calpurnia’s hostility towards her -- have led up to this moment. Scout’s argument leaves her relationship with her father in shambles, and she storms away to cool off. However, this issue is resolved at the end of the book, where Atticus and Jean Louise decide to try and work out their issues