Looking at this situation through Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and Lawrence Buell’s The Environmental Imagination can help us understand the ramifications of Kony’s exploitation and destruction of innocent families. “A Modest Proposal” is an outrageous satire of severe economic disparity in Ireland and the rampant poverty sweeping the nation. To deal with this problem, Swift provides advice for mothers on how to exploit the most money from their children, by killing them, skinning them alive, and selling everything else from the children that are not used. Swift utilizes an obvious satire as an attempt to encourage conversation in parliament about the poverty in Ireland. However, the satire Swift proposes describes the struggle Ugandans faced under Kony. Swift’s proposal can help us understand Kony’s impact on Ugandan children in his quest for
Looking at this situation through Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and Lawrence Buell’s The Environmental Imagination can help us understand the ramifications of Kony’s exploitation and destruction of innocent families. “A Modest Proposal” is an outrageous satire of severe economic disparity in Ireland and the rampant poverty sweeping the nation. To deal with this problem, Swift provides advice for mothers on how to exploit the most money from their children, by killing them, skinning them alive, and selling everything else from the children that are not used. Swift utilizes an obvious satire as an attempt to encourage conversation in parliament about the poverty in Ireland. However, the satire Swift proposes describes the struggle Ugandans faced under Kony. Swift’s proposal can help us understand Kony’s impact on Ugandan children in his quest for