Question

Explain in at least 200 words the tone of the first American Crisis pamphlet. Use evidence from the text to support your response.

Answer 1

The American Crisis is a collection of articles written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolutionary War. The pamphlet constitutes Paine’s constant support for an independent and self-governing America through many crisis’s of the Revolutionary War.  The first part, written December 23rd, 1776, has a tone of passion and inspiration. There is also a tone of seriousness, as Paine tries to illustrate the situation at hand. He is emphasizing the seriousness behind his passion for encouraging America against the Britain rule, which many people though was tolerable enough for them and that an attempt at gaining independence was incoherent. Many emotions were poured into this writing as Paine related to his people, another technique he used to persuade the soldiers to fight on.  “The Crisis” was so well-written and inspiring that it was read to the troops at Valley Forge by George Washington to help motivate them to keep fighting for the independence that was rightfully deserved. Altogether, Thomas Paine had multiple strong tones in “The American Crisis” that helped the soldiers in the Revolutionary War regain the motivation and strength they needed to push themselves to the limits, and to win the independence that Paine was so passionate about.

I hope this helps. I wrote it myself based on research I had done and what I already knew. 

Answer 2

Answer:

Thomas Paine uses rhetoric and tone in his persuasive pamphlet to try to plead to the common men for their support for the war against Britain.

Explanation:

Thomas Paine wrote The American Crisis, a pamphlet that is to influence and motivate the American people to support the American Revolution. He uses this pamphlet to try to appeal to the common people to put their support for the war and fight for their own rights.

Paine employs rhetoric to try to convince the common man to put their support to the war. Making sure to use the common easy language for everyone's easy understanding, he wrote "what we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly". Using a passionate yet meaningful plea to the people for their support, he implores on them to see that fighting a war against the colonizer nation, i.e Great Britain, is like fighting for God. He labelled the king of Britain as "common murderer, a highwayman", who is nothing but holy or supported by God. Rather, he states that "GOD Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to  perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war by every decent  method which wisdom could invent". Emphasizing on the fact that God is on their side, he uses a language that the people can easily understand and relate to. Touching on the topic of God being observant of their cause and not ignorant of it, he appeals to the people through his discourse on the ground realities of their lives. And it is this success that helped in the fight against their colonizers.