What is the author's tone? I think the author's tone is a mixture of condenscension and didacticness (AP #'s:6&15). Calvino uses condenscension because he has a sense of superiority and confidence when he gives information (AP #6). He is also didactic because he is trying to teach you about the classics and why you should read them (AP #15). At the beginning of the essay, Italo shows condenscension by putting a definition saying, "The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying 'I'm rereading...' never 'I'm reading...'" (pg:5 p:1). He is confident in the definition that that is the case the majority of the time. Italo uses didacticness by stating, "Even if the books remain the same(though they too change, in the light altered historical perspective), we certainly have changed, and this later encounter is therefore completely new," (pg:6 p:5). I think he is trying to say that the books will stay the same, but we will change and so will the experience each time we reread a classic. I think that having the mixture of condenscension and didacticness is a good one because they are both very strong tones. Calvino is confident and superior and he really is there to teach you new things about the classics and in a way, sort of motivate you to read them.
"AP Tone Words." Google. 2011. Web. 21. Aug. 2011. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites%srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxwcGhzZW5nbGlzaGtvaHxneDo1MGJiYjg3YmNNDQ2YTlk.
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