A Modest Proposal Summaries

In A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift tries to help solve the food shortage problem in Ireland by providing the proposal of consuming babies. He starts by mourning the fate of the Irish who struggle to find food for their children. He calculates that only around a hundred thousand children have…

This book by Jonathan Swift is full of satire. As the book begins, the narrator notes that the people of Ireland are going through hard times economically. Many women are walking in the streets, begging because they do not have anything to eat. These women have children, but they cannot…