imagine almost any alfred hitchcock film that you have enjoyed, and you understand the pull of psychological suspense. these are books that play with our minds, that create frisson of unease, that blend the creepiness generated by the horror genre with the tension inherent in suspense. these are stories that attract a range of readers—and filmmakers—and fit uneasily in any related genre into which we try to slot them.

title: the reader’s advisory guide to genre fiction

author: joyce g. saricks

city of publication: chicago

publisher: american library association

copyright date: 2001

page number: 186

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Reread this portion of the excerpted text from common sense. men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, come, we shall be friends again for all this. but examine the passions and feelings of mankind. bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land? if you cannot do all these, then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon posterity. your future connection with britain, whom you can neither love nor honor, will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first. what key concept about the relationship between an abusive government and its citizens does paine want readers to understand? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one to two complete paragraphs.