Sarah Ferry Summer Work AP English IV Summaries David Copperfield Chapters I-X In the first chapter David is born an unluck y infant because he was born in the small hours on a Friday night. He was born with a caul that hi s mother had sold. He was without a father because he had died six months before David‟s birth. His great-aunt, Miss Trotwood, was present the day he was born. She was convinced that the baby was a girl and that she would take good care of it being its g odmother. Discovering that David came out a boy, Miss Trotwood left and didn‟t return. The first thing that David could recall during his c hildhood was his mo ther‟s pretty hair and the nurse, Peggoty‟s, dark eyes and skin. He remembered one day after going to church there was a man walking his mother home. He had decided then that he didn‟t like the man and apparently neither did Peggotty. He found them crying together and Peggotty was saying that Mr. Copperfield would not approve of the man. It became accustom for the man, Mr. Murdstone, to come to David‟s house to see his mother and though David got used to it, he liked him no more than before. Peggotty and David travelled to Yarmouth to stay for a fortnight at her brother ‟s house. It seemed to David that they travelled on the carrier very slow, but ev entually they arrived at the house that was, to David‟s amazement, an old ship. He met Ham, Mr. Peggotty, and little Emily and became very fond of them. He had learned that Mr. Peggotty had adopted Ham and little Emily when his brothers died at sea. David easily fell in love with little Emily and she teased him as she ran away from h is kisses. He also came to observe Mrs. Gummidge who was a rather fretful old woman always saying, „im a lone lorn creetur and everythink goes contrairy to me.‟