![]() ![]() But it can't possibly be as good if it is not that immediacy of the child's prospective but time is a mysterious thing and the south has had a difficulty dealing with time. If the sequel would lessen the first book It is more poignant from a child's point of view, and I can't imagine it being better seen from the the adult prospective and yet the adult proscriptive could give us a broader sense of the ramifications in her later life of how this childhood is played out." The freshness, the innocence of the child, the initiation into horrors that is part of history, part of the racism that is still alive and well in this town. "Well, the book as it exists, and seen from a child's point of view has many advantages. On what makes "To Kill a Mockingbird" so great Here and Now's Robin Young speaks with James Applewhite, a professor emeritus of English at Duke University and a poet and essayist who has published many critical essays on southern literature, about the woman behind a "To Kill a Mockingbird." Interview Highlights Yesterday when news hit the web you could hear squeals of delight around the world about her highly anticipated new novel, "Go Set a Watchman," due out in July. Its been half a century since the release of the literary masterpiece "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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