Criteria on 'A Modest Proposal'

My oppinion: I neither liked his idea that he discussed, or the way he went about explaining it.



The author speaks in a way that is hard for readers to fully comprehend. He seems to stray away from his topic a couple times, and he uses a lot of Old English which both make reading it rather difficult.

Once I began to understand what the author was actually talking about, I also realized how he approached the topic in a sort of joking matter. He made it sound as if eating poor, innocent children was almost an amusing way to solve the problems for the homeless and hungry people living in the streets.

The authors idea is overall disgusting to me. He speaks of selling and eating children to make money as if they are animals. In a way he is almost promoting the United States to practice cannabilism, which is something that I defianetely dont approve of.