Cannot Access Array Issue

Question

I cant seem to get the array to be read from outside of the public MyBuffer part of the class. I need to be able to access theArray from the rest of the class. Does anyone know what I did wrong here? Thanks!
public class MyBuffer<T> extends Object implements Bufferer, SaveRestore
     public MyBuffer(int x)
          Object[] theArray = new Object[x];
     public boolean produceItem(Object item)
          try {
          //puts the items into the array from the assign classes
               //THIS IS THE PROBLEM - I need to be able to assign items to the array and in other portions i need to be able to read them back.
          //theArray[size]=item;
          size++;
          return true;
          //catches an array exception
          } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e){
               return false;
     }

Answer 1

I actually just didnt think of that. Now that works!!!
Now I've gotta get it to write. This method of writing seems to work fine for when I just plug in a number instead of the theArray[i] in there. I dont see why it shouldnt work when all I did was put theArray[i] instead of a number?
This is the error I get:
.\MyBuffer.java:91: cannot find symbol
symbol  : method write(java.lang.Object)
location: class java.io.BufferedWriter
                                out.write(theArray);
And this is my code for that section:          try {
               BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(fileName));
               for (int i=0;i<=size;i++)
                    out.write(theArray[i]);
                    out.write("\n");
               out.close();
          } catch (IOException e) {