Being called a girl is the worst thing possible—or so thinks Scout, the female protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird<span>. Girls wear frilly pink dresses and don't get to play outside, swear, or pretty much do anything fun. </span>And<span> they have to grow up to be ladies, which means being plunged into a confusing world where no one says what they mean. Scout's in for a big lesson, though: thanks to the examples of radical chicks Aunt Alexandra and Miss Maudie, she learns that being a lady can take as just as much courage as being a wild </span>tomboy<span>. Even if you have to wear a dress while doing it.</span>
Piggy gets really angry because all he wants to do is get off the island and be rescued, but now he can’t all because of Jack and the rest of his gang (the hunters).