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Help please

Answer 1

@Aureo

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Read the following passage from Jonathan Swift's essay "A Modest Proposal":
I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.

I do therefore humbly offer it to publick consideration, that of the hundred and twenty thousand children, already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed. . . . That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table.

Write a short argument responding to these questions: What point does Swift want to make in the passage, and does he use satire effectively to make that point? Be sure to include a clear claim and to respond to at least one counterclaim. Use specific details from the passage to develop your argument.

Answer 4

Here is my answer

Answer 5

The proposal in this passage is simply that children should be eaten to help fix the poverty issue. The solution to this problem is cannibalism and this can’t be denied. The proposal brought forth is just plain disgusting. Satire is being used to its fullest in this proposal in order to exaggerate how bad things are going. They probably are, but to describe it using number figures is a use of satire. Quoted, “...that of the hundred and twenty thousand children, already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed…” Obviously us, as readers, are in complete shock of such an idea. However, I feel as if Swift wanted to achieve this reaction from his readers to prove the point that people should be treated with love and care and not any kind of torture. I believe that Swift wrote this to make the reader realize how cruel this would be and how any type of torture is wrong.

Answer 6

@Elsa213

Answer 7

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