I found Go Set a Watchman to be incredibly poignant, especially at this point in my life, having recently left my religion. While Watchman focuses primarily on the racial tensions of the 1950’s in the South, I felt that a lot of Scout’s thoughts and actions throughout the novel correspond to similar thoughts and actions that I’ve experienced throughout my life in regards to religion. Despite this being a new release, the most quoted line from the novel is as follows: “Every man’s island… every man’s watchman, is his conscience.” In the Bible, the term watchman is used to describe a ‘prophet’, or someone who is to become the moral compass of a home or town or civilization. The phrase, ‘Every man’s island’, or ‘no man is an island’, indicates that a person’s conscience is what influences their interactions with their surroundings and with others. When ‘every man’s island’ and ‘every man’s watchman’ come together, the quote is indicative of an individual’s conscience being what influ