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Lastly Nathan Radley is a very bad influence in Boo Radley's life. Nathan is careless, mean, and un trustworthy. A good example of this is when Nathan Radley plugged the knothole in the tree. He lie's to Jem and doesn't tell him the real reason he is plugging it up. He doesn't want Jem to know that he is really doing it because Boo is giving the children gifts and Nathan wants him to have no connection to the outside world. " Tree's dying... you plug em with cement when they're sick" (56). This quote shows that Nathan is very mean to Boo Radley and is depriving him of any communication or joy he could have. Nathan is taking away everything from Boo and is not giving him the full happy live he could be living. Instead all he has given Boo

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