What does the Radley house mean to the children? I have only gotten throught chapter one.

At this point,
only getting through chapter one, you should see that the kids view the Radley house as a sort
of haunted house or masoleum. They believe a bogeyman-type character lives there. They are
afraid of what the bogeyman-type character is capable of and they believe many legends the
neighborhood has told about him.

This house signifies that which shouldn't be
touched. It is an unattainable, hand-off sort of symbol for them. Although they are intrigued by
the house's mystery, they have a reverence and a fear of the place that keeps them from checking
it out.

"Radley pecans can kill you."

You have to remember what it is like to be a kid and make stuff up
about a person or a place and believe it.