Thomas Paine …show more content…
Paine uses the logical approach when he explains the tyranny that Great Britain is committing. “Britain with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right not only to tax but to bind us in all cases whatsoever, and if being in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth.” (Paine 160) Paine basically comes upon a common lifestyle of many people of this era and how they live with that being slavery. This grounds everything in reality due to the fact that so many colonists used slaves for labor and reestablished the fact that colonists are basically being treated like slaves. The final persuasive appeal used was the ethical approach, in which Paine uses masterfully. For example when Paine talks about the conversation between the dad and the son he tells the reader how the father wasn’t being so fatherly and how he should have changed what he said, this shows the relationship between right and