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A Modest Proposal - Coggle Diagram
A Modest Proposal
His proposal is to fatten up the undernourished children and feed them to Ireland's rich land-owners
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The author offers statistical support for his assertions and gives specific data about the number of children to be sold
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He also anticipates that the practice of selling and eating children will have positive effects on family morality
This project will do more to solve Ireland's complex social, political, and economic problems than any other measure that has been proposed
1729
Satirical essay
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Tells the solution to the problem of starvation to death like a professional economist, though he is talking about using children as food
Swift intention is to shock the reader who is forced to either amused disbelief or unconscious acceptance.
Swift shows us with simplicity the tragic facts: thousands of people, especially children, are starving to death, partly because of the reader’s indifference