Eating children for dinner might be the answer for some people who have too many kids. In the article “A Modest Proposal” Swift says “A young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled”. He came up with the idea of eating children to hopeful catch people’s attention in Ireland so they could see the value of children’s lives. “A Modest Proposal” was a success because Swift convinced people to see the value of children’s lives by eating them with his method of using satire writing, ethos, pathos, and logos. One of the main reasons his article was a master piece was because he used Satire writing. He used a joking tone throughout the whole article
