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Thomas Paine's Common Sense criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists of the need to break away from Britain.

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jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.