Read "A Modest Proposal", which may be difficult at first, but if you stick with it, the message will become more clear. Once you are finished reading, you should write a short response to what you read (4-5 sentences), and explain how this is a work of satire.
Okay. Apparently the English people are mean and cruel towards the Irish people. So, to be sarcastic as show them an example of how awful and heartless they are, he writes this. He gives statistics, reasons, and excruciatingly detailed work about raising children to be a year old, and then eating them. He believes that since they are so cold-hearted, they should have no issue commiting or agreeing with this proposal.
This is a satire because he takes a serious tone and points out a major flaw in the English's behavior towards the Irish people. He shows how brutally mean they must really be and how they act. So he uses this sadistic view to point out to them how terrible their people are.
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