A Modest Proposal

     I thought that Swift’s writing was very strange. At first, he told of the beggars and children living in the streets of Ireland. Then, he explained what he believed to be a solution to this problem. It was that children should be used for food and clothes so they wouldn’t be a burden to their parents. He listed reasons that he believed supported this idea like the fact that there would be less papists and that it would stimulate marriages. I was really confused because I didn’t think that anyone could be so inhumane. Thankfully, at the end of the story, he said that he would never do it, and he would not sell any of his children for a single penny.

Swift, Jonathan. A Modest Proposal. 1729.