And you're also right how it demonstrates that we learn about views like this from those encounters. Not as dramatically as Scout/Jean Louise, but conversations we overhear, these days even Facebook posts, because let's face it, people say things on Facebook they wouldn't have the balls to say to the "wrong" people.
On a slightly less somber note, I am enjoying it, and I definitely see where the seeds grew to become TKAM. I was surprised when Dill came up, because my initial impression was that Henry was a Dill prototype, but it also doesn't make sense that Henry and Dill didn't seem to exist at the same time (Lee says Dill was only in Maycomb during the summer and Henry happened to go away then, so I guess it kind of makes sense, but I can also see her editor encouraging Lee to make them one character. I think that would've happened anyway, honestly, from an editing perspective. There's a few weird things where you can really tell it's the first draft - the book says early on that Calpurnia left the family sometime before Jem's death, then she just retired a few years after his death.
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I think you put it all perfectly. And sadly. :(
And you're also right how it demonstrates that we learn about views like this from those encounters. Not as dramatically as Scout/Jean Louise, but conversations we overhear, these days even Facebook posts, because let's face it, people say things on Facebook they wouldn't have the balls to say to the "wrong" people.
On a slightly less somber note, I am enjoying it, and I definitely see where the seeds grew to become TKAM. I was surprised when Dill came up, because my initial impression was that Henry was a Dill prototype, but it also doesn't make sense that Henry and Dill didn't seem to exist at the same time (Lee says Dill was only in Maycomb during the summer and Henry happened to go away then, so I guess it kind of makes sense, but I can also see her editor encouraging Lee to make them one character. I think that would've happened anyway, honestly, from an editing perspective. There's a few weird things where you can really tell it's the first draft - the book says early on that Calpurnia left the family sometime before Jem's death, then she just retired a few years after his death.