The crisis No. 1

In this story I view Thomas Paine as both a Puritan writer and a rationalism writer. I think that he incorporates both styles into this story and he is stuck in between the time periods of these two styles, perhaps. He uses rationalism to get his point across and he uses figures of speech that the Puritans did not use in their writings. But, then again Paine did mention God or heaven in this story as well. Perhaps he was just a religious man but was a rationalist writer. On the first page he mentions heaven in this story. He says, "Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." (Paine 134) I think that he is trying to say that God in heaven knows how much things are worth and how important certain goods are. He thinks people take their freedom for granted and they should learn to appreciate it. What the people don't have to work for they don't realize how great it is and they don't think they would lose it. This bothers Paine because he knows how important it is and how and he really does appreciate it. But then again what he said is not exactly a Puritan writing excerpt. It is figurative language and that is more in the rationalism style than Puritan. Throughout the story Paine uses figures of speech and gives details to prove his point.