How do I start a write a monologue about Boo Radley? I have to quote and give my opinion and other characters' impact on me.in Harper Lee's To...

If I were to write this piece, I would probably refer to
eNote's character description of Boo first, so that I would be able to present a fairly
accurate picture of Boo Radley, in Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird. I would include his history, how he watches the children for
entertainment, how he comes out only at night, how the children are like the only
friends he has had in many years, and how angry he becomes when he sees Bob Ewell trying
to harm them. I would include that he has been harmed and that he
won't let it happen to Jem and Scout, too. (In your writing, try to imitate the dialect
so many people in Maycomb use in sounding like southerners from a small southern
town.)

I would start by introducing
myself:

My name is Arthur Radley, but most folks
just call me Boo. No one knows me too well: most people just make up stories about me,
but I guess that's what folks do when they don't really know a
body.

The quote I would use to support this
is:

Jem gave
a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from
his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands
were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There
was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and
rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the
time.

I might also have Boo
respond to the rumors which he can hear when he walks around at night and people visit
on their porches or talk with their windows open, but I would address only
part of the quote: perhaps the part that he doesn't eat animals. He
eats what he's given and has learned to be thankful. There is also the rumor that he
stabbed his dad with scissors: he could say his father tripped over him while he sat
cutting paper on the floor, and his mother thought Boo did
it.

You could describe how Boo leaves gifts in the tree,
and how exciting it is to see the kids collect them and wonder about them; you might
also speak about the night the kids sneak over into the Radley yard and the consequences
(including finding and sewing Jem's pants); you could talk about covering Scout with a
blanket during Miss Maudie's fire; and, I would mention how Boo watches around the
window shades when the children play, like when Jem smacked the side of the house, and
Scout's tire rolled into the yard and hit the side of the house, which made him laugh.
Mostly importantly, I would write about how he follows the kids the night of the
pageant, how funny Scout's costume is, and how he becomes frightened and angry when he
sees Bob Ewell attack the children. Include a comment on how the Sheriff (Heck Tate)
decides to say Ewell fell on his knife, and how Boo is glad because he wouldn't want
people coming around to his house to talk to him, even if Nathan
let him, which he probably wouldn't.

Offer your own
personal responses as Boo's reactions because your writing will sound more realistic. We
can only imagine how hard life has been for Boo, but he is still our unlikely hero at
the end of the story. He can lastly speak about loving the kids, knowing he will miss
them when they grow up and move away.

This is how I would
handle the assignment if I were writing it.