After reading through “Why Read the Classics?”, I have decided that his tone is very persuasive and passionate. The entire essay is about him explaining why we should take time in our lives to read and reread classics. He uses fourteen different definitions of classics to explain that to us! When I first looked at the essay, I thought it was just going to be a few reasons for why we should read the classics, but I never expected how in dept he would be. “Perhaps the ideal would be to hear the present as a noise outside our window, warning us of the traffic jams and weather changes outside, while we continue to follow the discourse of the classics which resounds clearly and articulately inside our room.” (Calvino 8). This was a good example of how Calvino persuades his readers. He persuades us to read classics in a quiet room with no distractions such as TV’s or computers, so that we can focus on the book and only the book. He uses many examples like this to persuade his readers to read the classics.
It is obvious that he is passionate about the classics, or else he would not have written this essay all about them. At the end of the essay, he even joked about having to rewrite the essay a second or third time so that he could revise his points (Calvino 9). Throughout the entire essay he was very passionate and persuasive about the classics.
Calvino, Italo. "Why Read the Classics?" Why Read the Classics? London: Vintage, 2000. 3-9. Print.
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