David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "David Copperfield" traces a little boy's miserable childhood and his progress toward becoming a successful novelist and his discovery of true love along the way. The author has made a romantic effort to be realistic and thus has captured the essence of all parts of human life in the pages of this book. David Copperfield is the main character of the novel, but he is not the hero of the novel. David, a fatherless child born in a small village in Victorian England, is deeply attached to his mother and his nanny Peggotty. Her world turns upside down when her mother marries a man named Murdstone. The pain that his father-in-law and his “murdering wife or sister” inflict on David leads to his premature loss of his innocence. David is sent to "Salem House", a school where he is forced to live under Mr. Creakle's brutal regime. Soon he loses his beloved mother and his stepfather "takes care" of him to work as a warehouse worker in London. David feels “his hopes of becoming an educated and distinguished man shattered” in his bosom. Disgust...