So, you tell me? What do you think a 'classic' consists of? Is it the time period? The charaters? The writing? The popularity?
Reply here with what you think a Classic is.
What is a Classic?
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A classic is defined by its durablity and appeal throughout the ages, along with something that makes lit teachers happy- great writing, characters, plot, symbolism...
(Kidding about the lit. teacher part.) -
For me, classic literature become as gold because contains (I am not sure if is the correct verb) knowledge written by others writers of ancient times.
We, like young writers, can to learn a lot reading those classic literature.
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how old is classic? Mark Twain? Charles Dickens? Homer? George Orwell? H.G. Wells? Grimm? Hans Christen Andersen? Lloyd Alexander? E. A. Poe?
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A classic is defined by its durablity and appeal throughout the ages, along with something that makes lit teachers happy- great writing, characters, plot, symbolism...
(Kidding about the lit. teacher part.)
Actually, you're right! About the lit teacher thing, too. ^_~ I'm hoping to become a lit teacher in the future, and those things make me happy!
A classic is defined, most often, by a theme that is timeless. Take for example Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Love, and perhaps more correctly, young love, is something that we still feel today. It has a theme that is timeless and no matter when you read it, you understand and relate to what the story is about.
For something else, I'll take my favorite, My Antonia by Willa Cather. This book is so full of themes, it's hard to list them all. I'll take the one that I wrote my lit paper on: the fact that one can only mature through loss of innocence, usually resulting through a not so comfortable situation. For example, the story starts with Jim moving to Nebraska because his parents have died. He's only ten years old! To have your parents die at such a young age throws you right into maturity. Even if your parents haven't died at that young age, you can still relate to the general idea. That's why being a teenager is so painful! If we didn't go through general life pains and tragedies, we would fully mature enough--nor would we appreciate the good that does happy.
So, now that I've babbled your ear off! Classics are amazing. -
Suzanne wrote:
I'm hoping to become a lit teacher in the future, and those things make me happy!
I too!
If some school accept a English Major, I wll become a lit teacher. -
my favorite books that i consider classics are 1984 by George Orwell and The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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the other thing about classics is that they can be a defining piece for that perio, like Animal Farm, speaking of Orwell.
and i want to be a lit teacher, too, if i can ever get used to capital letters. i'm seeing a pattern... -
I think classics change the way which people look at and read literature. they are widely read and known, and like others have already said in this thread, have great plots and characters and they give us alot to learn about the time period which they were written in and the way people lived and thought back then.
classics are books which are read and then not forgotten. people are still talking about them and studying them years and years after they were written. they're timeless.
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Classic literature is timeless and transcends all boundaries. It retains its power whether it is read five, fifty or five thousand years after it was first published.
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I think, that one of signs of classic books is actual in all times problem. Classic teaches us, how to live. It develops our soul.
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