A Modest Proposal - Reaction

This short story was very intriguing and captivating to read due to the way that the author wrote it. He wrote it with such a noble sound, large words, and a very serious tone, that you are forced to believe everything he says, and to believe that he really means every word he speaks. The main theme is this is that it is perfectly okay to eat a child around the age of 1 years old, and that it will become a delicacy to all. The author of this story has a good way of going about writing it. First he states what the issue is, being that there are too many poor children sitting around in the streets being no benefit at all. Then he gives some statistics to back his proposal, then lists his reasons out, one through six.
I like the section that he lists and explains his six reasons, because when you read them, they all make sense, but then you think that you would never eat a baby! He has very logical reasons, that he obviously thought of very well. He uses such sophisticated language that you would think that this proposal is a real thing. Eating babies is such a horrible, unimaginable idea, yet you read this short story and realize that if we did do it, it would hard at first, but it would help the overpopulation of poor children sitting around on the streets, just being in the way.
What I liked about this short story, was the tone. This is a ridiculous idea, that is made seem possible and real. The author is writing as if he really does have a solution that could possibly be used. He doesn't make a joke of it all in his writing, if he did, the story would lose its focus, causing people to not believe in it as much. The idea of eating one year old children, saying that they would be delicious, and that cooks would learn to make it a delicacy, is a ridiculous idea, that has people thinking about how successful it would be if we tried it.