The Pit and the Pendulum part 2 questions
1. What effect does withholding information about the narrator's situation have on the reader?
2. What new details are revealed about the narrator's situation in lines 93-100?
3. Why do you think Poe might have waited to give these details to the reader?
4. Review lines 102-103 and identify phrases that contribute to Gothic themes.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

there purpose is to entertain

a.) literature that explores grotesque characters and eerie, violent occurrences in a dreary setting.