"Why Read the Classics" by Italo Calivino is obviously about reading and appreciating classic literature. The thesis of this essay revolves around numbered "rules" about reading classic literature. Calvino does not define the specific thesis in the essay. Therefore, I gathered the information up to make a thesis. The thesis I made is one should read the classics because the literature always stays relevant to your life and new discoveries about the literature can always be revealed. This thesis is implicit because the author does not define his thesis in words. The reader must expose their own thesis within the indirect words of the author. In retrospect, the reader must see beyond the points and themes to gather a thesis that the author has hidden in the essay. I found the thesis in between the lines. The reader has to search for it in this essay because the author does not make the thesis absolutely clear. The author probably wanted audiences to think about the thesis by not defining it in his own words. I bet the author, also, did that because a good reader must be challenged to make a thesis through an essay that does not make the thesis obvious.
Bibliography! :
Calvino, Italo. "Why Read the Classics." The Uses of Literature. New York: Vintage Books, 1999
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