Many times in life you feel, ” Wow, what if that happened, would the world be like this right now?” Today, when I read the short story: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift; we are once again faced with questions like: would we be facing this pandemic, would Donald J Trump be president, Would the US be a world power?.
In this story, we wonder, if his proposal was actually taken into force, what would happen? First of all, the following suggestions are only my insights. We might not even be alive if force was taken to eat all those babies when they came to the age of one. Even if most of us are still here, many people such as Abraham Lincoln, the son of a poor mother who would have would give her son to a rich noble, would not pass the age of one. He would be butchered, eaten, and would not become the US president. If he was not the president, who would save the Union, who would free the slaves. The US would not be like now, it most likely would have been a North and South. His proposal, if taken into force everywhere, it could result in the world population reduced to less than half. If the people were reduced, Japan would not have wanted more land and try to conquer China and help start WW2, people would not have been greedy to get more land when settling in America for there would be land enough for the reduced population. The rich people would have eaten soo many babies, that soon they would not be enough people to be their servants because the babies that were to become servants had been eaten! Many things could have happened just because of one proposal!
Things could have gone better or worse for the humanity. But I do know one thing, the fate of the world would have been pretty interesting if people decided to listen to the proposal!
Samuel M.