3. paine’s tone in the american crisis tracts might be best described as one of the emotional fervor. how does he establish this tone in the first paragraph of no. 1? what strongly negative words does he use? to whom or what do these negative words refer?

4. notice the following statement from a letter by paine to silas deane: “the mind of a living public… feels first and reasons afterward” (395). in light of this statement and your analysis of paine’s tone, how do you think he expected his readers to respond to his tracts?