Boo Radley Monologue Analysis

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The summer after my Boo Radley sighting, Jem still wouldn’t forgive me. He reckons since he is older than me he has some sort of right where he should’ve seen Boo first. I’ve tried my hardest to explain to him that it’s not my fault he was unconscious but he is just thick headed. Atticus says that this is just another one of Jem’s phases and he’ll get along with me again someday.
Dill and his parents decided that he can come Maycomb every summer. The day he arrived this summer, right away he said to me, “Either you or Jem seen Boo Radley yet?” He joked, but what I said next surprised him like no other.
“Yes, I chatted with him on the porch,” I said. Dill looked back and forth between me and Jem trying to figure out if I was pulling his leg

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