Calvino’s “Why Read the Classics?” was organized unlike most essays that we would normally read. Essays usually start out with an introduction and then their body paragraphs build up according to importance, and then they have the conclusion. This essay was different. It was organized as if it was a list, which it was. He used the fourteen definitions of ‘classics’ and scattered them about his essay, but gave each one an explanation. A few times during the essay, the definitions only had one-sentence explanations instead of a few paragraphs explaining it, but besides that difference, the essay’s organization is pretty much repetitive. Definition. Explanation. Definition. Explanation. For the climax of the essay, Italo Calvino uses a mixture of the fourteen definitions to summarize the points of the entire essay. His points ended up merging into the overall point that classics are important to have in your life because they can greatly affect the way you understand life. Like I said earlier, this essay was organized not with a typical introduction and conclusion with paragraphs in-between, but as a giant list with explanations for each definition that all built together the climax. I enjoyed this essay also because of its different style of organization.
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