Blog#9. - "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathon Swift

This essay, I believe made me feel a little nausous. I'm not going to lie. Reading about the "would you like salt or pepper" with your kids. (not funny at all). But ofcourse there is a reasoning behind his sick humor. I believe it is for us to understand the true problem about children. I think he is trying to make us question..."when children are so poor...should we just throw them away? I mean might as well eat them..." type of thing. I think that some differences between the Swift and the proposer is that Swift it definitely more understanding for the people living in harsh, poverty. It is obvious that the proposer has a sicker mind than Swift, and Swift truley does not want children to be eaten! It becomes known that Swift does not really want children to be eaten, because he states that eating children would help the country but his reasoning for why eating children would help was not really "Real" or humane. In addition, I believe that the audience for this proposal was for wealthy people. The wealthy people who are aware of the striken poverty and poor people out on the streets. This proposal is for rich people who care. And Swift would be in the middle class. When i became aware that Swift's proposal was not serious, ofcourse I was relieved and all. But the whole idea of eating children in the first place is absurd and disgusting. But that is how he gets our attention. There are many issues around the world, political and social, that have similarities to his proposal. For example, during the progressive era, when child labor was in, they treated them very poorly as if they were not important. This was due to their lack of money, and poverty and so forth that they were ended up in a factory or some coal shop. Children are the future, lets not do this again.