When an author picks up a pen and paper and begins to articulate his/her thoughts, there is only one objective in mind, which is to deliver a consequential message. An author will not write a piece of text without a meaning to go along with the purpose. If there is no meaning being generated, then the text will have no value. The type of form that one may use depends on how one would like to execute the purpose of the text. The reader will not understand what the text means without knowing what the purpose of the text is. Although one might argue that the purpose and form of a certain text are not relevant to the meaning, an analysis of voice in The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, and exaggeration in A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift, will show how both authors use the purpose of the text and the form it takes to generate an influential meaning. In The Hunger Games, the purpose and
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Swift's motivation in composing this successful satirical essay is to point out exploitation caused on Irish Catholics by English Protestants. Swift conveys this purpose regardless of the audience’s understanding of the history of the text. A Modest Proposal proposes that poverty in Ireland can only be prevented by killing children and serving their meat as a delicacy to the nobility of Ireland. Swift expresses this fact when he states, “Those who are more thrifty may flay the carcass, the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for fine gentleman” (Swift 8). Swift intentionally exaggerates by stating such an extreme, to encourage citizens of society to find a prudent way of reducing the levels of poverty in Ireland. Consequently, A Modest Proposal justifies that one can generate an impactful meaning with simply purpose and
Swift's motivation in composing this successful satirical essay is to point out exploitation caused on Irish Catholics by English Protestants. Swift conveys this purpose regardless of the audience’s understanding of the history of the text. A Modest Proposal proposes that poverty in Ireland can only be prevented by killing children and serving their meat as a delicacy to the nobility of Ireland. Swift expresses this fact when he states, “Those who are more thrifty may flay the carcass, the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for fine gentleman” (Swift 8). Swift intentionally exaggerates by stating such an extreme, to encourage citizens of society to find a prudent way of reducing the levels of poverty in Ireland. Consequently, A Modest Proposal justifies that one can generate an impactful meaning with simply purpose and