adley property also threatens the lives of people brave enough to venture near it. The children believe that anything that comes from the Radley's soil is poisoned, including the nuts and fruits on the trees. Jem yells at Scout once saying about the Radley property: "Don't you know you're not supposed to even touch the house over there? You'll get killed if you do" (pg. 33). Jem also goes so far as to say, "if Dill wants to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up and knock on the front door (pg. 13)" No child has ever died from touching something on the Radley property, yet the children continue to believe it to be true. They envision Boo as a horrible beast that eats squirrels and rats with his bare hands who loves to kill children. In the end of the novel, the reader discover
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