The fictional child characters in Stevensons Treasure Island, Dickens Oliver Twist and Twains The Adventures of Tom Sawyer have been analysed through a framework evolved from Bronfenbrenners theory of human development, aspects of developmental psychology and discourse and pragmatic features that the characters use in dialogues. Focus has been on textual and extra-textual details and the Macrosystems of the novels. The correlation between the cognitive, psychosocial and pragmatic skills of the child protagonists has also been discussed. In addition, the literary techniques the ...