The short story, A MODEST PROPOSAL by Dr. Jonathan Swift is interesting. I liked some parts and didn’t like some parts.
The thing I liked is how well the tells us how things happen. The reason I think this is because the book tells us how the main character calculates how mutch poor babies there will be. The book says “I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couple, who are able to maintain their own children, (although I apprehend9
there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom) but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand, for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remain an hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born
The thing I don’t like about the story is that it is really hard to understand. The reason I think this is because it uses a lot of hard vocabulary. some examples of them are, professed, importuning, and sustenance.
This is what I think about the short story, A MODEST PROPOSAL by Dr. Jonathan Swift.