What do you think of when you hear the word crisis? Do you think of something that happened in history, or do you think of things that are happening in your own life? “The American Crisis” as better known as just “The Crisis” was a series of pamphlets that Thomas Paine wrote after writing his well known pamphlet, “Common Sense”. There are sixteen pamphlets in total and all of them were published from 1776 to 1783. Thomas Paine’s The Crisis uses pathos most effectively because it utilizes the audience’s sense of fear as a weapon and because it inspires anger.
Pathos is in effect as the Paine uses senses of fear to gain attention and persuade them to want the same things as him, which was independence from Britain. People of the colonies were
Pathos is in effect as the Paine uses senses of fear to gain attention and persuade them to want the same things as him, which was independence from Britain. People of the colonies were