"Modest Proposal" summary by Alejandra H.

 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, is about a proposal to the people of Ireland. He is asking the lower class (the poor) to give their children to the rich land owners. He wants to make the nation better and get rid of the bad economic shape they are in and the take away the burden of the parents. He found an easy method to do it; he will get the parents of the poor children to sell their children to the rich as a food source. He wants get the undernourished children to get fat so they can be sold to the rich land owners. He says the children can be sold by their weight as meat and this can also make their parents profit and fix their economic statues. He argues that the children can be sold as early as the age of one year old, and it can solve a lot of problems to the overpopulated and nonworking families of Ireland  who keeps having children. He gives some very good statistical facts about the requirements of the children and until what age is good to sell them.  I found very interesting that Swift would think of cannibalism as the solution to the overpopulated problems.I think he just wanted to create something where it can be a cycle and help both economic classes and help the nation recover. The most interesting part about his proposal is the steps he wants to take with his plan and the requirements it has, the number of children that should be sold and price, and recipes for the “new meat”, and lastly he is positive that this new selling of children will get respectable effects with in the families and the people of Ireland. I really enjoyed this story and  I think it’s great proposal, I know its bad to sell children as food to the rich, but Swift has some great points and it works out perfectly he is helping both economic classes, they are both benefiting from this.