What do Huck, Scout, and David have in common?

“Huckleberry Finn,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “David Copperfield” are all great books and all view the adult world through the eyes of a juvenile. In each of them Mark Twain, Harper Lee, and Charles Dickens accomplish a remarkable feat - - the reader often knows more about what is happening than the narrator does at the moment of an encounter, although in each book the narrator eventually discovers the true character and motives of those with whom he or she deal. Only truly great writers can keep a story moving along and the reader engrossed while simultaneously creating a multi-dimensional novel, one in which the narrator’s voice and the writer’s observations remain with us long after we have completed reading the book.