The Rationalist time period in American History was a time of change and emotion. Impending revolution overcame people with a mix of both emotion and pride. A plethora of documents signified this period of time including The Declaration of Independence, “The Crisis, Number 1”, and the “Speech in the Virginia Convention” all of these having different persuasive appeals but trying to modify the same cause. “The Crisis” not only uses an emotional appeal to overcome its reader with a passionate response to change but it confronts the fear that all the colonist had of the situation. “The Crisis” is a piece of literature that uses its emotional appeal, incredible writing, and real life comparisons in order to really grab the attention of the readers of that time.
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Paine uses the logical approach when he explains the tyranny that Great Britain is committing. “Britain with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right not only to tax but to bind us in all cases whatsoever, and if being in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth.” (Paine 160) Paine basically comes upon a common lifestyle of many people of this era and how they live with that being slavery. This grounds everything in reality due to the fact that so many colonists used slaves for labor and reestablished the fact that colonists are basically being treated like slaves. The final persuasive appeal used was the ethical approach, in which Paine uses masterfully. For example when Paine talks about the conversation between the dad and the son he tells the reader how the father wasn’t being so fatherly and how he should have changed what he said, this shows the relationship between right and
Thomas Paine …show more content…
Paine uses the logical approach when he explains the tyranny that Great Britain is committing. “Britain with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right not only to tax but to bind us in all cases whatsoever, and if being in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth.” (Paine 160) Paine basically comes upon a common lifestyle of many people of this era and how they live with that being slavery. This grounds everything in reality due to the fact that so many colonists used slaves for labor and reestablished the fact that colonists are basically being treated like slaves. The final persuasive appeal used was the ethical approach, in which Paine uses masterfully. For example when Paine talks about the conversation between the dad and the son he tells the reader how the father wasn’t being so fatherly and how he should have changed what he said, this shows the relationship between right and