To Kill A Mockingbird Monologue Essay

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Summertime was always the best part of the year for me. I always looked forward to when my aunt would start to pack her things in our small living room in New York City. She would tell me, "Now Dill, start packin' your clothes and fix your playthings so that we can leave early tomorrow mornin'," and I would always scramble into my room and stuff my favorite changes of clothes along with my prized posessions into one large bag. Once I was done, I would throw it one the pile of my aunt's luggage and beg her to hire out a pilot to fly us into Maycomb.

"C'mon Aunt Sally, I've saved up all my money so's that we can fly on in on one of those huge airplanes," I would plead. She would always reply with a little laugh,

"Now now Dill, you know as well as I that we could not
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We would always gather in an enormous group hug and begin to talk about each of our amazing adventures we had had over the nine "school months". I would spin the biggest threads about how I'd gone up in a mail carrier plane, ventured to Africa, and even seen an elephant! Jem would always marvel at how wonderful my stories were. Scout would often stand in disbelief and threaten to beat me up if my stories were not true, but she often took to them as well as her brother.

Jem, Scout, and I were the best of friends during those three months I stayed next door to them. We would make up games and plays that included the mysterious and spooky Boo Radley. Now that Boo Radley was the most curious creature I ever did come across. Jem said that he just stayed in his house, which was just down the street from the one I stayed in, and ate the cats and mice he could catch with his bare hands. Scout would tell of stories that the local folk made about Boo, but they did not scare me one bit. One day, we decided to go over and pay a visit to Boo to see if we could make him come

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