Pairing Young Adult Literature books with the Classics

After reading chapter 3 in the book titled "Reading Their World, The Young Adult Novel in the Classroom written by Virginia R. Monseau and Gary M. Salvner.  I now understand why the pairing of Young Adult Literature and the Classics is beneficial to students. One of the reasons is because they are related to their everyday life through the themes that are associated with them. When paired with a Young Adult book the Classics can become more understandable and they can relate to them better. I just read "Romeo and Juliet" and paired it with "The Fault in our stars". Basically the themes in these two books are similar and relate to love and death. The books also are equal because they both have tragic episodes in them. They both contain love, hate, violence, and uncertainty as well as death. By comparing the two it helps students to understand and relate to the Classics as well as to the Young Adult Literature. Young Adult Literature also contains relevant characters, settings, situations, and genres that students can connect to even more. As a student when I was in High School understanding the Classics was sometimes a struggle. Don't get me wrong I love the Classics, but sometimes we ended up staging plays of them because of their complexity. I can see where this method will help our students immensely.  After learning about this new and improved way that they are being taught in our schools I'm so excited to try it out.