Imagine the following scenario: you’re in the middle of a full out war against the greatest superpower in the world. What would be going through your head? Thomas Paine, author of the American Crisis, was an 18th century Enlightenment philosopher and author. Paine wrote the American Crisis in the midst of the revolutionary war, between the British empire and American colonists. Paine, in order to boost the colonists morale and to denounce the British, wrote and published his first pamphlet in 1776. In the Crisis, Thomas Paine motivates his audience to continue fighting the revolutionary war by appealing to their emotions, establishing his credibility, and presenting a clear argument.
