July 29, 2012 -- It's easy to get so wrapped up in a book that you start thinking the characters are real. And it's especially fun to do so when the characters seem like ideal dudes. That's why we ...

Click here to To Kill A Mockingbird. 2. Sansa Stark Sure, lots of the characters in A Song of Ice and Fire are misunderstood, but poor Sansa is misjudged by her fellow characters and by most readers.

Lyra. Pi Patel. Frodo. Eragon. Alex Rider. Liesel Meminger. Harry Potter. For centuries, the plucky orphan has been a stock character, one as archetypal as Prince Charming in children’s literature.

Regardless, Holden Caulfield remains one of the most controversial literary characters of all time—some love him, some hate him, and some love to hate him.

For centuries, the plucky orphan has been a stock character, one as archetypal as Prince Charming in children’s literature. Countless classic stories and novels lay bare the trials, tribulations ...