Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sold forty thousand copies in six months. This fact helps show that the book was instantly popular, but does not show that it is a classic. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a classic because there are multiple morals, students read the book in school, and it changes the reader. First, there are morals in the story. One moral is everyone has both good and bad in them. For example, Mr. Hyde is the evil in Dr. Jekyll. Another example is in the book The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, the Socs are mean to the Greasers but Randy is being nice to Ponyboy which shows that the Socs are actually nice. Another moral is good beats evil. In the book the good beats the bad, but dies while doing it. Dr. Jekyll
