Jonathan Swift is an Irish author, he is well known for criticizing Ireland’s government satirically in his essay “A Modest Proposal”. He gives suggestions of solutions to the government for solving the nation’s political, economic, and social problems. In Ireland, poor citizens were suffering and starving due to the government’s poor organization in economic and social classes. Jonathan Swift proposed his extraordinary solution to the problems, his solution is to sell the children from poor families to wealthy families as food. Even though the proposal sounds unusual, he can still explain the advantages of the plan. For example, “the poor tenants will have something valuable of their own,” (p.918) there “would be a great
