A modest proposal

"FOR PREVENTING THE CHILDREN OF POOR PEOPLE IN IRELAND FROM BEING A BURDEN TO THEIR PARENTS OR COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING THEM BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC"

" It is is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and the cabins doors, crowed with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants, who, as they grow up, either turn to thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country." Out of everything I have had the pleasure of reading this one really touched my heart. Some how I see something like this happening through out the world today. The injustice that was happening in Ireland by the English invasion and how through his use of irony he brings the social injustice to the table. He talk about eating these poor children as a delicacy for the rich as a form of getting rid of the problem of having these children on the streets without it being a financial burden, and making money from it. It had a strange way of making sense for those whom this was not directly affecting and how today where many are dying from similar situations people think of ways to make a profit, I think of India and how people are so poor they actually maimed themselves or sell vital organs to make money for their families.