Wednesday, December 7, 2011

A Modest Proposal?


The assigned reading for today's class was "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift. Please respond to the following prompt in a comment below this post.

After reading "A Modest Proposal":
do you feel that the proposal was modest?
Why or why not?
What point do you believe Jonathan Swift was trying to make?
Do you think he was successful?

Make sure to use specific examples from the text. (At least one example for each question)
Make sure to incorporate the definition of satire.
Even though this is a blog, please use complete and grammatically correct sentences.

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