In Jonathan Swift’s, “Modern Purposal’,” the narrator releases an essay about how killing and eating children would for the better of the economy and environment. He states that the streets of Ireland are swarmed with poor, begging children and that they would only be off the street for a year before they are clamoring for food. The problems among Ireland were ignored by England, so the writer releases the poem anonymously that suggests that if they started to eat children the amount of abortions and crime would decrease and the country would have an economic gain. We all know that Swift was truly not suggesting the consumption of children, but he used satire and humor to show the real problem of Ireland. The use of killing children disturbed
