A Modest Proposal

This was a very interesting paper. I have never read anything like it before. At first I didn't really understand what was going on, probably because I would never think of someone writing about this. The writing style was difficult for me to understand. But once I got further into the paper I realized that I was reading it correctly. The problem talked about in the paper is the problem of the poor being aburden to parents and the country. The author talked about the poor suffering from disease and hunger giving the solution of either selling their infants for food are at the age of six putting the children to work. He talked about how infants were good to eat and how selling them would eliminate the population problem of a Kingdom in Ireland. This paper really shocked me.