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To answer the question above the major point of Thomas Paine is to encourage and inspire the army and more people to join the cause and the fight. Paine uses emotional ideologies and phrases for the colonist to have reasons why they deserve to be freed from the tyranny.
The tone of this article is highly critical towards those who complain about the challenges and adversities that life brings upon them, or that they bring upon themselves, and, instead of seeing them as opportunities to surpass themselves and even excel, they focus on feeling sorry for themselves, and expect others to feel the same way about them. They adopt a conformist attitude that might be reflecting a lack of confidence or a limited capability. Furthermore, the tone of the article is outspoken yet encouraging. Life may not be fair, and it is certainly not easy, particularly for some people, but a positive attitude and personal drive can go a long way to make the most out of it.
This would be handle through speeches, talks, assembly's, conventions, and so on. This would be the ways that we would be able to convince the people who are coming to these places to convince them about what ever the topic that we would be speaking about.
Metaphor in "Ribbon of moonlight"