What do you think makes a story a classic?

Answer 1

an all absorbing plot, memorable characters, and the passage of time.

Answer 2

The characters, the narrative voice, the tone, the situations ... all work toward creating a story that readers find relevant year after year, even centuries later.

Classics stand the test of time. That's the party line. A more cynical view is that classics are what the status quo decides is an acceptable representation of their social structures. While there may be some merit to that point of view, I think that ultimately people return to certain texts because they find something in them that seems remarkably contemporary, even if the text was written a hundren or a thousand years before.

Answer 3

i think what makes a story a classic is its orignality and the way it is enjoyed over the centuries by everyone, young, old, men, and women and even years and years later, people still enjoy reading it, in my opinion, nobody can ever get tired of reading classics. they have a uniqueness that makes them even more interesting each time it is read.

Answer 4

I've never thought of this query, I'd try. A classic story should be unique, readable, understandable, inspiring as well as great, in brief, it is timeless and able to entice readers to read it with pure enjoyment or for literary reasons in the years to come.

Answer 5

a story is a classic if it can be enjoyed by all ages or when the issues in the book can be seen in every generation.

Answer 6

what makes a novel a classic is finding something new every time you read it.

Answer 7

universally liked, read, enjoyed, and ppl can made allusions to it