A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift was a very abstract way to solve Ireland's problem of famine, poverty, and everything else that was wrong. His proposal was to have as many children as they could, but to keep only 1/4 of the little boys for a year. The other 3/4 of the boys would be sold for cannibalism after one year of being fattened up by their parents. His proposition would end hunger because they would have all the extra meat that they would need, and would end their problem of poverty because then they could sell the kids for around 8 shillings per child.
I thought that this idea was ridiculous and I think that he was not entirely serious about carrying out his plan because at the very end of the reading he said that his wife was barren and all his kids were legitimate and couldn't be sold. I don't even think the plan would truly work because I don't honestly think that people would actually sell their children for others to eat like animals.
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