Classics. Big, professional-looking books sold by Barnes and Noble in those beautiful leather editions that we all just love to collect and look at on our shelves. Why are they important?
We’ve all been in that situation where we have to read a classic for school. I, myself, had to read Great Expectations, which was something I was not excited for. You could say that I didn’t have great expectations about it. Now that I have that weak pun out of the way, classics are certainly daunting. Not only are the majority massive in size, but more than half of them are hardly in English! So why do we even need to read them? Well, that’s what I hope to tell you!
1. Classics Help Us in Real Life Situations

2. Classics Help Expand Vocabulary
Sort of obvious. You can open the first page of some classics and see those huge words that take up half the line and your mind just goes blank. Nothing makes sense anymore and you have to put down your book to pick up your two inch copy of the Webster (or you can Google it, but that’s too easy). After finding your mystery word, you proudly pick your novel back up and read two more lines before getting stuck again. Oi. However, you now know a whole two words that you never knew before. A tedious practice, but you’re learning and that’s all that matters in the end. Right?
3. Every Time You Read a Classic, It’s Like Reading it for the First Time
Not something you would expect. Classics are complicated. They have a relatively new language and every time you read it, you discover something you never noticed before, so it’s like reading it for the first time! Isn’t that neat? I know that if I could read my favourite book again for the first time, I would do it in a heart beat, just to fall in love with it all over again. There’s something almost poetic about it.