DAVID COPPERFIELD

DAVID COPPERFIELD

The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of a first-person narrator, the same David Copperfield, and was the first Dickens novel to do so.

The story is about David Copperfield’s life from childhood to adulthood. David was born in England around 1820. His father died before birth, and nearly seven years later, her mother marries Mr. Murdstone. David does not like her stepfather and feel the same way Mr. Murdstone’s sister, Juana, who soon starts to live in the same house. Mr. Murdstone criticizes David for falling behind in their studies. In one of these altercations, David bites him and then sent away to a boarding school, Salem House, a ruthless director, Mr. Creakle. Here he makes friends with James Steerforth and Tommy Traddles who, in true Dickensian style, disappears and reappears later