Log #8

Log8

Book: Go Set a Wathman

Author: Harper Lee

Finally, I finished “Go Set a Watchman”. At the end of the story, Jean Louise accepted the Southern thought, and she broke her father’s image in her mind as a hero. She realized that nothing in the world is unchangeable. She has long considered her father as the embodiment of justice. She confused her father with God. She never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings. Yet, Uncle Jack successfully convinced her to face the inconvenient truth.

I was surprised to see that she decided not to marry Henry. I saw how great Henry was in her memory, and she even had crush on him fiercely. How great Henry had affected her. Therefore, I predicted Jean Louise would forgive and marry him after everything was solved, and she would understand his position. However, she did understand, but she just respected his choice. He’s just not her kind.

What’s the true meaning of equality? It’s always hard to strike a balance between the ideal and the reality. Just like the chapter in Go Set a Watchman, Jean Louise proclaimed the black should have the equal right same with the white, despite the fact that they’re backward, we should still let them have the hope in mind, since they are human. However, as the point mentioned by Atticus, they would definitely destroy the whole system of government if they were equipped with the ability to manage Maycomb, because they were backward and low-educated.

For how long, we human beings have been searching for absolutely correct. Yet, the book unceremoniously conveyed us with the idea” Every man’s island, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.” We should always be aware of our mind. We should keep our own conscience. We have to build up our own value, instead of being affected by others. When the world is chaotic, when the humanity is dull, we must keep our own conscience, and never be influenced by others’ rhetoric.