Best Child Characters in Literature

All children are great; tiny human being at the beginning of a long twisted road, they all give a heroic sense of greatness, especially the ones that are closest to us. It is only natural for some of them to steal our attention. Whenever we attend a family party or some event of the sort, we tend to be drawn by children as if they were magnets; their lively spirit attracts life as such.

Also, there are some other children that, despite the fact that they have never actually lived among us, they are to keep us company for the rest of our lives and for an eternity. These are some of the ingenious fictional children characters that we meet in the all-time classic literature books. These children are a child’s best imaginary friend. As for the adults, well, they do allow some nostalgia to enter the adult lives. They are the friends that we will never lose!

Here are a few of my favorite fictional children characters:

J. D. Salinger’s hero in the classic book The Catcher in the Rye, namely Holden Caulfield, is a synonym of teenage rebellion and of that dazzling spirit of independence. A lovely character if you get to understand him better, he basically dreams of a world of adults that are closer to their desires and to the untainted idea of truth and truthful living. Holden is recognized today as an archetypical hero of modern American literature; Salinger never again managed to reach that height in literature. Therefore, Holden Caulfield is his masterpiece.

Mark Twain’s character named Tom Sawyer is probably one of the most recognizable fictional characters of all times. I cannot imagine a child growing anywhere in the world without having ever fantasized about Tom Sawyer and all of those thrilling adventures that he inspired. Along with his buddy Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer symbolizes the everlasting spirit of adventure and curiosity that only a child can experience and withhold. When you’re a child, the world looks bigger and the possibilities are endless after all… Booking DisneyWorld tickets by FloridaTix might make your child’s Sawyer inspired dreams come true when he will find himself in the Tom Sawyer Island… don’t miss that chance!

And then there is Alice, this little girl that found herself living the wildest fantasies of her rich imagination – or were they Carroll's? Alice in Wonderland is nowadays a landmark of our culture, a book that parents will buy for their children as long as people… will still have children! And it might just be one of those books that parents will also buy for themselves. I personally read the book when I was still a teenager.  The book is, up till this day, one of the most pleasant reading experiences of my life…

Whether I want it or not, I think that I will have to close this article with the one and only Harry Potter. Why is that? Well, simply because J.K. Rowling’s magnificent literary universe is by now a cultural phenomenon. When was the last time that children, along with their parents, were making lines outside a bookstore waiting for the latest adventures of some extraordinary kid with special powers? The nerd sort of type, also? Last time I checked people were waiting in lines for the new i-Pad! Apart from this, Harry Potter, generally speaking, is a lovely and convincing character. He is always trying to do good, he is down to earth (even if he knows how to fly!), he is a common sense guy that, even if he got to be known as a magician, he is surely the fictional character that the generations to come will identify themselves with. It’s hard to find kids who can say no to magic, after all!