Eating Children

Eating children? That went too far, but that was the thing that was needed to protest against the conditions Ireland lived because of the bad treatment of England. Ireland had beggars and starving children everywhere, money was short in supply because all of the money was sent to the rich landlord in England, some policies of England kept the Irish poor and hungry. Eating children will be unbearable, that was a thing that no one even should think about, a thing that would be unforgivable. The Irish probably thought it was bizarre and weird that someone would want to eat children. Something had to be done about all these problems, and a lot of proposals were made, but not one was heard. That is why an outrageous solution had to be implanted, so all the people in England will listen to the actual problem that were living their neighbors at the same time they lived in luxuries and wealth. The author had one alternative then, write something that would seem extremely evil, dark, and unforgivable, just to be heard: that all the people start eating the flesh of children. Although many parts of this piece of art make several literal points as solutions to the problem, most of it is ironical, to call for attention from the audience, and that the news that a new proposal had …show more content…
A proposal that had to be heard, or Ireland will eventually die. All these things about eating the babies had a hidden message in the back, and any reader can see. Swift makes fun of many targets to support his point