Lucas Nichols
6/16/15
A modest proposal summary
This essay was written by a man named Jonathan swift. In this essay he discusses the hardships of the kingdom he lives in. But through it all he talks about a very strange idea he has that could literally benefit everyone, even the victims involved in what he is calling his scheme. It would involve parents selling their year old babies to landlords so that they could be served as meals. It would not only be a tasty snack for the landlords, it would be great money for the parents as well and solve many economic problems and even population problems. One very disturbing thing I thought of this essay, was why the author choose the idea of eating babies. I understand the essay was satirical, but I came to the conclusion he wanted to use dark humor to try and “solve” the population problem and what's funnier than a dead baby joke right? I think he wanted the reader to see almost how bad London was at the time and this was the only way to do it.
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