A Modest or Silly Proposal?

"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift was a proposal that offers a solution to take care of all the problematic and starving children in Ireland while being beneficial to parents. His solution was to eat them. He went on about how this could solve all parents' trouble and how they could even sell them to markets to be eaten. But despite all of Swift's reasoning on about eating children, his true message is different. It is about the malnourished children that aren't getting the attention they need. It is a perfect satire because he raised the matter of the excessive amount of Irish children by calmly suggesting a ridiculous idea that had a bit of an amusing effect. By using this tactic, people would consider the rising problem of children starvation, rather than just ignoring it.