But as I kept reading his proposals, that he suggested that the people take all the children who had no families that they be sold like they were meat. He said that at age 1 children would be fattened up and sold to the rich. They children would be sold like they were pigs and also slaughtered like them. Swift also stated that most of them would be used in elegant dinners, special occasions, and also christenings. He said there were so many children that they would have a food supply for the

whole country. That some would be skinned after the meat would be cut off to take the carcass and make women's gloves and men's boots. I was very shocked and disgusted at what Swift was proposing to do with the problem of the poor.

When I had finished reading the proposal, I thought Swift to be a mad, sick, and twisted man with no moral values. But then I remembered the quote by Jules Feiffer-"Satire is creating a logical argument which, followed to its end, is absurd." I remembered what satire was (ridiculing something by making fun of something) so I thought that Swift was just saying all of these things because it was all absurd that no one in Ireland would ever do something ungodly to the children. The essay progresses through a series of surprises that firs

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