When I first started to read the beginning of the proposal I saw what hardship Ireland was going through. I read how that England was hurting the country economically. How the poor were on the streets and how that there were many children who were abandon by there parent’s. But as I kept reading his proposals, that he suggested that the people take all the children who had no families that they be sold …showed first 75 words of 519 total…

…showed last 75 words of 519 total…end, is absurd.” I remembered what satire was (ridiculing something by making fun of something) so I thought that Swift was just saying all of these things because it was all absurd that no one in Ireland would ever do something ungodly to the children. The essay progresses through a series of surprises that first shocks the reader and then causes her to think critically not only about policies, but also about motivations and values.