Calvino's tone in this essay would definitely be persuasive. He tries very hard to prove his point to the reader with 14 different definitions of what a classic actually is. His argument is that unless you are a fully mature adult you have no reason to be reading the classics, young people simply do not understand them. I agree with this argument because before Jane Eyre , classic novels just bored me, I did not like them. He states that unless you are being forced to read a classic in school, young people just should not read them. This is a reasonable statement because if it was not an assignment to read classics I surely wouldn't have. When I grow older though, I kind of want to try reading some classics. Calvino seems to think that it is a completely different experience when you grow older. He would be happy to know, I think, that I agree with his argument.
Calvino, Italo. Why Read the Classics? New York: Vintage, 2000. Print.
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