How Is Thomas Paine Used In Crisis No. 1 Persuasive Speech

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During the american revolution lots of people started to feel discouraged about wining the war. During this time people were hurting, scaried and ready to give up. This time period was very fragel due to all the emotions, Yes when Thomas Paine came out with the Crisis No.1 he did not baby it by using pathos one of the most effective persuasive writing techniques. In Crisis No. 1 paine shows paine shows pathos right in the begining of the speech. Here is exampal “These are the times that try men’s souls …The summer soliders and suntime paitots will… shrink’(Paine). What paine is saying in this is he is calling out everyone who are only going to fight if it is an easy fight and will go away.this is patos due to how saying some thing like

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