Question

Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number I by Thomas Paine.

Answer 1

Answer:

The central idea of this passage is to tell the reader about good and bad examples of fatherhood.

Explanation:

The man with the child uses the "unfatherly expression, 'Well! give me peace in my day.'" Further down, it notes that a generous parent "should have said, 'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;'".