Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee, i believe is a great book yes a bit rushed and some parts a bit disconnected but it changes the views we have ourselves since To Kill A Mockingbird, it teaches us that change isn't as easy and doesn't come fast enough and the way we view people especially through the eyes of a child and through they way we perceive things to be, but to challenge one's way of thinking, and at the same time questioning the status-quo helps us grow and the more we are open to other ideas and options the more things will change in the long run we must first stop running from ourselves.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Reading List)

Written in the viewpoint of the two children of Atticus Finch, a lawyer defending an innocent man of color named Tom Robinson who is being prosecuted on a rape and assault of a young white woman  in the 1930’s where town views were not so kind towards those you were not of the ‘same cloth’. The story shows Atticus trying to teach his children against the prejudice of the town’s viewpoint and teach them the morality of their convictions and actions. Even with the loss of the case Atticus still allows his children to observe the brutal honesty of the conviction and death of Tom Robinson and it’s ripple effect it has on the Alabaman town of Maycomb .

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that over the years has sold over thirty millions copies and has been read by so many more. Atticus Finch since the books debut in 1960 has been the moral hero of the story and has given them a moral compass to be guided by and given us sense of the moral integrity that we must live by which shows through the way he speaks and acts, his actions follows his words and acts the same no matter where he was and who he was with and he explains this in one simple line to scout “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what”

With the recent news of a sequel ‘Go Set a Watchman’ which is based 20 years after the events of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ has given the story an extra burst of life. I look forward to reading the sequel and to return to the town of May

comb.

To finish I leave you with quote from the book, but it holds true even in today’s world “but sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down...”

Looking For Alaska by John Green (Reading List)

Seeking the great perhaps, something that Mile’s (Pudge) Is changing schools to seek out. Over the course of the story he finds something more than a great perhaps, he finds Alaska, someone who would came into your life and leave you wandering who you were before you met here, so the line ‘if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane’ fits and stood out true.

I never expected myself to relate completely with a character than what I did with Mile’s (Pudge) he wasn’t completely sure of himself at the beginning, but he knew himself to know he needed that change and sometimes that is what we all need is the change no matter what happens what we become out of it in the end is worth the journey and the mystery that awaits all of us.

I highly recommend reading Looking for Alaska, no matter what age you are. It is very well written, John Green has the ability to make you feel the happiness and the pain of the characters and he will find you begging for more.