essay on a modest propasal

I recently read the selection from Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. I understood his concern about the over-populated and mistreated citizens in Ireland. He found that it was disturbing to see children be born to women who are employed as beggars. He was tired of seeing females that birthed two to six children that they could not provide for because the only means they had come from scraps that they begged to get. Swift had been witness of such type of people in his country and put it into perspective how he thought this was an ongoing problem that the country had to face and deal with. He goes on to propose a solution to prevent the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country. He wanted to make those children more beneficial to the public.
In the beginning he seem to have reasonable and delicate concern for these families as well as his country. I would very much say that this proposal had a surprise ending, one of which I would have never expected. I was shaken when the once relatable and understandable proposal issue took a sudden turn to which completely disgusted me. However, I became very much aware of the surprise ending when in the proposal he stated, “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.” (Swift, 1729) Swift sickeningly suggested to his Country that they sell these children and future children off for money so that they could become feast for the buyer. He recommended that they be born and divided off for specific duties and the remaining to be sold for food.
I was traumatized and was not expecting this type of ending to this proposal. I was thinking in the beginning that he was going to suggest sending them off to some type of school or home that