Dear, Harper Lee

Dear,
Ms. Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird is a masterpiece. Go Set a Watchman is probably the reason everything went to hell.

Writers have a responsibility to speak into the social discord. We have the necessary responsibility to speak into social problems, and to work out solutions. To Kill a Mockingbird was a solution to an age old question. It was a solution to Racism, Sexism and many other riddles. The core theme of the novel being "Justice." The acknowledgement of Tom's innocence, the acknowledgement of Mayella's guilt, the acknowledgement of Tom's inevitable sentence. It speaks to truth.

Now, there are radicals trying to remove it from the curriculum. Why? Because it is a novel portraying truth. Anything true, the modern radical is trying to destroy, or defame. The unfortunate truth is that Racism and Sexism have taken their reverse forms, so that the harder truths are impalpable.  However, turning Atticus into a racist was a poor publishing decision. The only thing I can see, is that this is an alternate universe. As it is an alternate universe where Atticus won the Tom Robinson trial.

The destructive catalyst to our modern Racism, is that To Kill a Mockingbird has become controversial and pushed into the realm of "Radical." The story is true, and it aggressively prosecutes False Rape Allegations, and it condemns the women who are abusing their unique position.

The danger of this modern day, and the danger of our modern world is the ignorance exuded by the populace's tastes, to promote Hate. Do blacks hate whites? Is the stereotypical image of them, travelling in gangs, obsessed about their skin color and hating the Cracker a true portrait? No. It is not. But, equally dangerous is the assumption that such individuals do not exist. And art ought to critique those individuals. A sickness of ingratitude filters through the populace. And as many faux remedies they create, it all stems from self love and selfishness.---Forgetting the childhood lessons necessary for understanding this complex world.

The danger, of course, Ms. Lee, is that your bastard child has been leaked to the public by a Money Grabbing Ms. Carter, and it was published irresponsibly. It may have been a first draft. A first draft is not the work. It is not where the work was meant to go. For, when a writer is creating, the subconscious juices flow and meld together to create masterpieces. A work such as To Kill a Mockingbird needed to be of its own accord, without the first draft published. It is not the authentic writer's work. The authentic work is where the novel had originally gone. What the novel, in all its creative glory, had become. Not what the novel was in its first incarnation. Atticus in the first draft might be racist, but Atticus in the true, Canon story is a hero. 

We need not defame our heroes, as the surrounding controversy has destroyed a beloved classic. It does not matter what an author's first draft was. Only what the author had polished it into.