If you ask a hundred avid readers whether they preferred modern or classic literature, an overwhelming amount of them would rebottle classic, and rightfully so.

Stephanie Meyer, author of the wildly popular Twilight, is a modern author that produces a bad name for modern storytellers. Her literature has value, but not literary value. Her novels fail to fabricate benefits that are applicable to the academic realm. If a novel has no worth in the class, then it has no literary value at all. When a student reads 1984 by George Orwell, he or she receives strong notations of the evils of communism, but when a student reads Twilight, he or she learns that vampires glitter in the sun, and that’s about it.

In addition, I have also read an excerpt from Fifty Shades of Gray, and in seconds I was concurrently enraged and entertained. This work of fiction is currently topping the charts, and for what? The sexually explicit material provides no literary value, except to give middle-age woman strange sexual fantasies.

Not all modern literature is pointless and redundant, but unfortunately a majority of it is while classical literature will constantly be there to provide students with significant lessons of life and its troubles. The superb modern authors are unfortunately unrepresented in academic schools because of their overt references to drug and sex. One sole reason teenagers prefer modern literature over classical is simply that modern literature is much easier to comprehend and decipher, due to its eighth grade language. Personally, what I do love of modern literature is its emphasis on individuality and atheism.

With classic literature, you are guaranteed a well-written, thoughtful reading experience. It may not be pleasant, but for the most part, classic authors had a hope for humanity. Older novels, for several reasons, tend to habitually be better written, fun and a benefit to humanity, contrary to Twilight and others, which doesn’t aid the human spirit and instead weakens it with superficial characters and themes. That’s the reason why The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck has never been out of print and still sells in cartloads. A classical book engrains messages that influences the readers to be better and aids them in comprehending the human condition; it speaks directly to the reader’s heart, discordant to the current bestsellers.