Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry were very important rebels in the 1770’s, otherwise known as the “Age of Reason.” Both Paine and Henry noticed a problem with the rule of Britain over America. When times started to get tough, the decided to write speeches based on America and its rights for freedom, and liberty. Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis” and Patrick Henry’s “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech bota reveal the tyranny and wickedness of the British government, and how America should rise up in order to regain freedom through their description of character traits. For example, Patrick Henry’s whole speech is explaining that there is good and evil going on in their world. As Henry is discussing the acts of false hope from an ordinary
