1. He makes the author of A Modest Proposal come off as witty and very intelectual. He shows that the author knows how to solve all of Ireland's problems, but on the othere hand he is doing it sarcasticly.
2.The author's real thesis is that the people of Ireland need to do better to provide for themselves and take a stand against England. If they keep living the way they are, they will surely die.
3.I detect differences between the propser and the author when he suggests that we eat the babies as the solution to the problem. That was absurd so I knew he had to be joking. This is the point of the story where it starts to get ironic.
4.A lot of people are singled out including old people, young children, and England. He does not like the beggers at all. He thinks they should be doing something better with their life. The Irish are also to blame because they are not doing anything about their current situation. His alligence lies with Ireland but he is becoming fed up with the people there. He identifies himself as poor, but not a begger.
5.The essay does give some serious proposals such as saying that Ireland needs to get their act together if they want to survive into the next decade.
6. This is organized by age of solution. First he talks about babies, then young children, and then old people. The purpose of the last paragraph is to say that if he could help out he could, but he is poor so he unfortunately he can't.
7. swift's piece is very successful. I do ot think that the satire becomes overpowering, it strengthens the moment. I think that it has a big enough impact because this is the first time that we hear an actual solution.
8.I have no idea about the different types of satire, but I know he used satire threoughout the essay explaining to use some ridiculous solutions.
9.It is an understatement because the proposal is not modest at all, it is a very radical proposal. It is verbal irony for the same reason.
10. Throughout the essay there is irony. Especially when he is coming up with "solutions" to the problems of babies and the elderly. This is also how he uses sarcasm. It works out very well.
11.It is telling Ireland that they need to fight back in order for them to get what they want. England is suppossed to be the big guys and Ireland the weaklings. It also has something to do with civil rights.
Logos: When is talking about the number of people in Ireland and explaining how the population breaks down by age and gender.
Pathos: There is not that many places he uses pathos, but one place is when he is suggesting that we eat babies.
Ethos: The last paragraph he is using ethos.
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