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Why do you think the radley place is so important? (to kill a mockingbird)

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Answer: The Radley Place represents the privacy, isolation and unfriendliness of the Radley family. With its austere front and closed shutters and doors – which in Maycomb 'meant illness and cold weather' – we learn that the 'misery of that house' (Chapter 1, p. 15) began many years before the novel even begins.

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