Jonathan Swift Article, Kirsten Southerland

Jonathan Swift's article "A Modest Proposal" was a very interesting article about his solution to overpopulation and lack of food. Swift proposed that the best solution to these problems would be to eat newborn babies. I found this a bit disturbing, considering anyone that would voluntarily eat a newborn baby just to avoid overpopulation would be a sick person. Although, in this form of writing and knowing that it was a satire, this was very humorous and Swift provided great evidence on why this would be a good idea. I liked how he used statistics and backed his thoughts up with the use of important characters taking his side. I think what Swift was trying to do was make fun of the idea, he was very sarcastic, yet very believable.