Letter To Boo Radley Point Of View

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Point of View: Dill

It all began with Scout Jem and I playing our game and eventually Jem got this idea. It was a rather strange idea but I would do anything to impress Scout. Jem decided he wanted to give a letter to Boo Radley he had not worked all the kinks out yet, but he pondered a long while and came to the conclusion. He concluded that we should use a stick and slide the letter in Boo’s window. I decided it would probably work and began assisting in composing the letter we would transfer to Boo. When we completed the letter we ran over to Boo’s house and we commenced to attempting to place the letter in window. As time fleeted by it was soon realized that we would never succeed in this endeavor to situate the letter in his window.

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